Recruitment in retractor bulbi muscle during eyeblink conditioning: EMG analysis and common-drive model

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2498-2513

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYELID REFLEX; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RABBIT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TOPOGRAPHY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDITIONING, EYELID; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSHOCK; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; RABBITS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70350322437     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00204.2009     Document Type: Article

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