Evidence from retractor bulbi EMG for linearized motor control of conditioned nictitating membrane responses

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2074-2088

  Lepora, N F ^a   Mavritsaki, E ^b   Porrill, J ^a   Yeo, C H ^c   Evinger, C ^d   Dean, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d State University of New York at Stony Brook   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR UNIT; NICTITATING MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRACTOR BULBI MUSCLE; STIMULUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, EYELID; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NICTITATING MEMBRANE; RABBITS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 35348853173     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00210.2007     Document Type: Article

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