abstract：:Soleus (SOL) corticospinal excitability has been reported to increase during Achilles tendon vibration. The aim of the present study was to further investigate SOL corticospinal excitability and elucidate the changes to intracortical mechanisms during Achilles tendon vibration. Motor-evoked potentials (MEPs) were elic...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Lapole T,Temesi J,Arnal PJ,Gimenez P,Petitjean M,Millet GY

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variations of the µ-opioid receptor gene OPRM1 have been shown to modulate pain perception with some evidence pointing towards a modulation of not only physical but also "psychological pain". In line with suggestions of a common neural network involved in the processing of physical pain and negative and distressing st...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Bonenberger M,Plener PL,Groschwitz RC,Grön G,Abler B

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coarticulation indicates a dependence of a movement segment on a preceding segment (carry-over coarticulation) or on the segment that follows (anticipatory coarticulation). Here we study coarticulation in multidegrees of freedom human arm movements. We asked participants to transport a cylinder from a starting positio...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Hansen E,Grimme B,Reimann H,Schöner G

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ageing affects many visual functions. Here, we investigated the effects of ageing on vernier acuity and backward masking using the shine-through paradigm. We divided healthy older adults (>60 years) into two groups depending on whether vernier duration was comparable to younger adults (Older Adults 1) or not (Older Ad...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Pilz KS,Kunchulia M,Parkosadze K,Herzog MH

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contributions of somatosensory, vestibular, and visual feedback to balance control are well documented, but the influence of auditory information, especially acoustic noise, on balance is less clear. Because somatosensory noise has been shown to reduce postural sway, we hypothesized that noise from the auditory mo...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Ross JM,Balasubramaniam R

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulus-response compatibility (SRC) effects are classified depending on the way that the elements of the stimulus and response sets interact, influencing both the speed and accuracy of the motor response. This is particularly important for social stimuli, such as hands. However, the stimuli used in most SRC studies ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Lameira AP,Pereira A,Fraga-Filho RS,Gawryszewski LG

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many activities of daily living involve multi-digit, voluntary rotational manipulations of grasped objects. Yet, only a few studies have focused on coordination of individual fingertip forces during such tasks. The objective of this study was to investigate individual digit contributions to a three-digit task in which...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Manis RP,Santos VJ

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Feedback about error or reward is regarded essential for aiding learners to acquire a perceptual-motor skill. Yet, when a task has redundancy and the mapping between execution and performance outcome is unknown, simple error feedback does not suffice in guiding the learner toward the optimal solutions. The present stu...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Huber ME,Sternad D

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been assumed that the human central nervous system uses flexible combinations of several muscle synergies to effortlessly and efficiently control redundant movements. However, whether muscle synergies exist in the neural circuit remains controversial, and it is critical to examine the association between t...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Hagio S,Kouzaki M

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been hypothesized that the steady-state response to a periodic sequence of clicks can be modeled as the superposition of responses to single clicks. Here, this hypothesis is challenged by presenting an extra click halfway between two consecutive clicks of a regular series, while measuring the auditory evoked fi...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Lütkenhöner B,Patterson RD

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study, we assessed the synchronous neural interactions (SNI) in a developing neural network in brain cultures on multielectrode arrays (Christopoulos et al. in J Neural Eng 9:046008, 2012). Here, we report on the effects of apolipoprotein E4 (apoE4) on these neural interactions. We carried out six experi...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Christopoulos V,Georgopoulos A,Georgopoulos AP

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain needs information about the size of the body to control our interactions with the environment. No receptor signals this information directly; the brain must determine body size from multiple sensory inputs and then store this information. This process is poorly understood, but somatosensory information is th...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Walsh LD,Hoad D,Rothwell JC,Gandevia SC,Haggard P

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyper-gravity provides a unique environment to study how misperceptions impact control of orientation relative to gravity. Previous studies have found that static and dynamic roll tilts are perceptually overestimated in hyper-gravity. The current investigation quantifies how this influences control of orientation. We ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Clark TK,Newman MC,Merfeld DM,Oman CM,Young LR

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limb proprioception is an awareness by the central nervous system (CNS) of the location of a limb in three-dimensional space and is essential for movement and postural control. The CNS uses the position of the head and neck when interpreting the position of the upper limb, and altered input from neck muscles may affec...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Zabihhosseinian M,Holmes MW,Murphy B

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prism adaptation (PA) is a promising rehabilitation technique for visuo-spatial neglect, an attention disorder that is characterized by spatial attention deficits (i.e., deficits in orienting). PA involves visuo-motor adaptation to rightward shifting prism goggles. Following goggle removal, this adaptation results in ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Kintzel F,Ishigami Y,Eskes GA

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent psychiatric disorder in children that often continues into adulthood. It has been suggested that motor impairments in ADHD are associated with underlying cerebellar pathology. If such is the case, individuals with ADHD should be impaired on motor tasks req...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Kurdziel LB,Dempsey K,Zahara M,Valera E,Spencer RM

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Judgments on laterality of hand stimuli are faster and more accurate when dealing with one's own than others' hand, i.e. the self-advantage. This advantage seems to be related to activation of a sensorimotor mechanism while implicitly processing one's own hands, but not during explicit one's own hand recognition. Here...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Conson M,Errico D,Mazzarella E,De Bellis F,Grossi D,Trojano L

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:People are more sensitive to detecting asynchrony between a self-generated movement of the hand and delayed visual feedback when what they see matches the expected "self" perspective rather than an "other" perspective (Hoover and Harris in Exp Brain Res 222:389-397, 2012). We take this as corresponding to the ability ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Hoover AE,Harris LR

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared pursuit responses to 2D target motion in three separate conditions: predictable, randomised and randomised with timing cues. The target moved on a continuous quadrilateral path in which right-angle direction changes allowed anticipatory eye acceleration and deceleration in orthogonal axes to be assessed. R...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Barnes G,Collins S

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hand shaping during prehension involves intricate coordination of a complex system of bones, joints, and muscles. It is widely hypothesized that the motor system uses strategies to reduce the degrees of independent control. Both biomechanical constraints that result in coupling of the fingers and joints and neural syn...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Prosise JF,Hendrix CM,Ebner TJ

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature reports that anticipatory postural adjustments (APAs) are programmed according to movement velocity. However, the linkage between APAs and velocity has been highlighted within single subjects who were asked to voluntarily change movement velocity; therefore, till now, it has been impossible to discern w...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Esposti R,Bruttini C,Bolzoni F,Cavallari P

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has demonstrated that viewing one's hand can induce tactile response compatibility effects at the hands. Here, we investigated the question of whether vision of one's own hand is actually necessary. The Eriksen flanker task was combined with the rubber hand illusion in order to determine whether tact...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Wesslein AK,Spence C,Frings C

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor imagery (MI - i.e., the mental representation of an action without physically executing it) stimulates brain motor networks and promotes motor learning after spinal cord injury (SCI). An interesting issue is whether the brain networks controlling MI are being reorganized with reference to spared motor functions....

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Di Rienzo F,Guillot A,Mateo S,Daligault S,Delpuech C,Rode G,Collet C

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3,4-Methylene-dioxy-N-methylamphetamine (MDMA, 'ecstasy') has a broad spectrum of molecular targets in the brain, among them receptors and transporters of the serotonergic (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) and noradrenergic systems. Its action on the serotonergic system modulates motor systems in rodents and humans. Althoug...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Liebig L,von Ameln-Mayerhofer A,Hentschke H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The retinal positions of objects in the world change with each eye movement, but we seem to have little trouble keeping track of spatial information from one fixation to the next. We examined the role of attention in trans-saccadic localization by asking participants to localize targets while performing an attentional...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： MacInnes WJ,Hunt AR

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familiarity with the visual environment affects our expectations about the objects in a scene, aiding in recognition and interaction. Here we tested whether the familiarity with the specific trajectory followed by a moving target facilitates the interpretation of the effects of underlying physical forces. Participants...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Mijatović A,La Scaleia B,Mercuri N,Lacquaniti F,Zago M

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurostimulation, e.g., transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), shows promise as an effective cognitive intervention. In spite of low spatial resolution, limited penetration, and temporary influence, evidence highlights tDCS-linked cognitive benefits in a range of cognitive domains. The left posterior parietal...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Jones KT,Gözenman F,Berryhill ME

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms underlying stress-induced hyperalgesia (SIH) remain poorly understood. Recent findings have provided strong evidence indicating that SIH could be related, at least in part, to alterations in spinal cord GABA activity. In the present study, we first investigated how acute restraint stress impacted pain r...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Ma X,Bao W,Wang X,Wang Z,Liu Q,Yao Z,Zhang D,Jiang H,Cui S

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trajectories of goal-directed movements are less curved for movements over a surface (constrained) than for movements in empty space (unconstrained). To study whether this difference arises from feeling the surface slip across the skin or having to control the movements in a third dimension, we manipulated the availab...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： van der Graaff MC,Brenner E,Smeets JB

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic pain and gait variability in a dual-task situation are both associated with higher risk of falling. Executive functions regulate (dual-task) gait variability. A possible cause explaining why chronic pain increases risk of falling in an everyday dual-task situation might be that pain interferes with executive f...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Hamacher D,Hamacher D,Schega L

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of perceptual and neurophysiological studies have investigated the effects of delivering unilateral versus bilateral tactile sensory stimulation. While a number of studies indicate that perceptual discrimination degrades with opposite-hand stimulation, there have been no reports that examined the digit specif...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Nguyen RH,Forshey TM,Holden JK,Francisco EM,Kirsch B,Favorov O,Tommerdahl M

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many age-related degenerative diseases of the central nervous system (CNS) increasingly appear to have similarities in their underlying causes. By applying knowledge between disorders, and in particular between degenerative diseases of different components of the CNS (e.g. the eye and the brain), we can begin to eluci...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Harvey H,Durant S

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have found that affective states with high motivational intensity narrow attentional scope, whereas affective states with low motivational intensity broaden attentional scope. This conclusion, however, is based on fragmented evidence based on several separate studies. The present study tests this conc...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Liu L,Zhang G,Zhou R,Wang Z

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that non-clinical subjects with high levels of schizotypal personality traits (High-S), as well as schizophrenic patients, have difficulties to judge how a scene would appear (so-called Appearance questions) from a point of view other than their own after having performed a disembodied perspective taking (...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Vastano R,Sulpizio V,Steinisch M,Comani S,Committeri G

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutral buoyancy facilities are used to prepare astronauts and cosmonauts for extra vehicular activities e.g. on-board of the International Space Station. While previous studies indicated a decrease in cognitive performance in an under water setting, they have only provided behavioural data. This study aimed to review...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Schneider S,Cheung JJ,Frick H,Krehan S,Micke F,Sauer M,Dalecki M,Dern S

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although maintenance of steady contractions is required for many daily tasks, there is little understanding of brain areas that modulate lower limb force accuracy. Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to determine brain areas associated with steadiness and force during static (isometric) lower limb target-ma...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Yoon T,Vanden Noven ML,Nielson KA,Hunter SK

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The afternystagmus that occurs in the dark after gaze fixation during optokinetic stimulation is directed in the opposite direction relative to the previous optokinetic stimulus. The mechanism responsible for such afternystagmus after suppression of optokinetic nystagmus (ASOKN) is unclear. Several hypotheses have bee...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Chen CC,Huang MY,Weber KP,Straumann D,Bockisch CJ

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol exposure can reduce adult proliferation and/or neurogenesis, but its impact on the ultimate neurogenic precursors, neural stem cells (NSCs), has been poorly addressed. Accordingly, the impact of voluntary consumption of alcohol on NSCs in the subventricular zone (SVZ) of the lateral ventricle was examined in t...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Campbell JC,Stipcevic T,Flores RE,Perry C,Kippin TE

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dual visuomotor channel theory proposes that prehension consists of a Reach that transports the hand in relation to an object's extrinsic properties (e.g., location) and a Grasp that shapes the hand to an object's intrinsic properties (e.g., size and shape). In central vision, the Reach and the Grasp are integrate...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Hall LA,Karl JM,Thomas BL,Whishaw IQ

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Touches on one hand or forearm can affect tactile sensitivity at contralateral locations on the opposite side of the body. These interactions suggest an intimate connection between the two sides of the body. Here, we explore the effect of masking not across the body but through the body by measuring the effect of a ma...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： D'Amour S,Harris LR

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00