Changes in human muscle spindle sensitivity during a proprioceptive attention task

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 5172-5178

  Hospod, Valérie ^a   Aimonetti, Jean Marc ^a   Roll, Jean Pierre ^a   Ribot Ciscar, Edith ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Fusimotor neurons; Kinesthesia; Microneurography; Muscle spindle; Noise; Proprioception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; GAMMA MOTONEURON; GAMMA NERVE FIBER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINESTHESIA; MUSCLE SPINDLE; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROGRAPHY; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ARTIFACTS; ATTENTION; BRAIN; CUES; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE SPINDLES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERONEAL NERVE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 34248399187     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0572-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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