Temporal uncertainty does not affect response latencies of movements produced during startle reactions

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 278-282

  Cressman, Erin K ^a   Carlsen, Anthony N ^a   Chua, Romeo ^a   Franks, Ian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Motor preparation; Reaction time; Startle; Variable foreperiod

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; STARTLE REFLEX; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; WRIST;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; REACTION TIME; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 33646497422     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0459-x     Document Type: Article

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