Complex spatiotemporal tuning in human upper-limb muscles

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 564-572

  Pruszynski, J Andrew ^a   Lillicrap, Timothy P ^a   Scott, Stephen H ^a,b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONS; ROBOTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 74049148536     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00791.2009     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Bawa P, Stein RB. Frequency-response of human soleus muscle. J Neurophysiol 39: 788-793, 1976.
2. Brecht M, Schneider M, Sakmann B, Margrie TW. Whisker movements evoked by stimulation of single pyramidal cells in rat motor cortex. Nature 427: 704-710, 2004.
3. Brown IE, Cheng EJ, Loeb GE. Measured and modeled properties of mammalian skeletal muscle. II. The effects of stimulus frequency on force-length and force-velocity relationships. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 20: 627-643, 1999.
4. Brown IE, Loeb GE. Measured and modeled properties of mammalian skeletal muscle. I. The effects of post-activation potentiation on the time course and velocity dependencies of force production. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 20: 443-456, 1999.
5. Brown IE, Loeb GE. Measured and modeled properties of mammalian skeletal muscle. III. The effects of stimulus frequency on stretch-induced force enhancement and shortening-induced force depression. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 21: 21-31, 2000a.
6. Brown IE, Loeb GE. Measured and modeled properties of mammalian skeletal muscle. IV. Dynamics of activation and deactivation. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 21: 33-47, 2000b.
7. Cheney PD, Fetz EE. Functional classes of primate corticomotoneuronal cells and their relation to active force. J Neurophysiol 44: 773-791, 1980.
8. Churchland MM, Shenoy KV. Temporal complexity and heterogeneity of single-neuron activity in premotor and motor cortex. J Neurophysiol 97: 4235-4257, 2007.
9. Conrad B, Meyerlohmann J, Matsunami K, Brooks VB. Precentral unitactivity following torque pulse injections into elbow movements. Brain Res 94: 219-236, 1975.
10. Evarts EV. Relation of pyramidal tract activity to force exerted during voluntary movement. J Neurophysiol 31: 14-27, 1968.
11. Fetz EE. Are movement parameters recognizably coded in the activity of single neurons? Behav Brain Sci 15: 679-690, 1992.
12. Georgopoulos AP, Kalaska JF, Caminiti R, Massey JT. On the relations between the direction of two-dimensional arm movements and cell discharge in primate motor cortex. J Neurosci 2: 1527-1537, 1982.
13. Graham KM, Moore KD, Cabel DW, Gribble PL, Cisek P, Scott SH. Kinematics and kinetics of multijoint reaching in nonhuman primates. J Neurophysiol 89: 2667-2677, 2003.
14. Graziano MSA, Taylor CSR, Moore T. Complex movements evoked by microstimulation of precentral cortex. Neuron 34: 841-851, 2002.
15. Gribble PL, Scott SH. Overlap of internal models in motor cortex for mechanical loads during reaching. Nature 417: 938-941, 2002.
16. Hatsopoulos NG, Xu QQ, Amit Y. Encoding of movement fragments in the motor cortex. J Neurosci 27: 5105-5114, 2007.
17. Hepp-Reymond MC, Wyss UR, Anner R. Neuronal coding of static force in the primate motor cortex. J Physiol (Paris) 74: 287-291, 1978.
18. Herter TM, Korbel T, Scott SH. Comparison of neural responses in primary motor cortex to transient and continuous loads during posture. J Neurophysiol 101: 150-163, 2009.
19. Herter TM, Kurtzer I, Cabel DW, Haunts KA, Scott SH. Characterization of torque-related activity in primary motor cortex during a multijoint postural task. J Neurophysiol 97: 2887-2899, 2007.
20. Hogan N. The mechanics of multi-joint posture and movement control. Biol Cybern 52: 315-331, 1985.
21. Hollerbach JM, Flash T. Dynamic interactions between limb segments during planar arm movement. Biol Cybern 44: 67-77, 1982.
22. Joyce GC, Rack PMH, Westbury DR. Mechanical properties of cat soleus muscle during controlled lengthening and shortening movements. J Physiol 204: 461-476, 1969.
23. Leyton SS, Sherrington CS. Observations on the excitable cortex of the chimpanzee, orangutan and gorilla. Q J Exp Physiol 11: 135-222, 1917.
24. Mason CR, Johnson MTV, Fu QG, Gomez JE, Ebner TJ. Temporal profile of the directional tuning of the discharge of dorsal premotor cortical cells. Neuroreport 9: 989-995, 1998.
25. Moran DW, Schwartz AB. Motor cortical representation of speed and direction during reaching. J Neurophysiol 82: 2676-2692, 1999.
26. Morrow MM, Miller LE. Prediction of muscle activity by populations of sequentially recorded primary motor cortex neurons. J Neurophysiol 89: 2279-2288, 2003.
27. Mussa-Ivaldi FA. Do neurons in the motor cortex encode movement direction? An alternative hypothesis. Neurosci Lett 91: 106-111, 1988.
28. Nozaki D, Kurtzer I, Scott SH. Limited transfer of learning between unimanual and bimanual skills within the same limb. Nat Neurosci 9: 1364-1366, 2006.
29. Perlmutter SI, Maier MA, Fetz EE. Activity of spinal interneurons and their effects on forearm muscles during voluntary wrist movements in the monkey. J Neurophysiol 80: 2475-2494, 1998.
30. Pierrot-Deseilligny E, Burke D. The Circuitry of the Spinal Cord: Its Role in Motor Control and Movement Disorders. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005.
31. Pruszynski JA, Coderre AM, Lillicrap TP, Kurtzer I. Temporal encoding of movement in motor cortical neurons. J Neurosci 27: 10076-10077, 2007.
32. Pruszynski JA, Kurtzer I, Lillicrap TP, Scott SH. Temporal evolution of "automatic gain-scaling." J Neurophysiol 102: 992-1003, 2009.
33. Pruszynski JA, Kurtzer I, Scott SH. Rapid motor responses are appropriately tuned to the metrics of a visuospatial task. J Neurophysiol 100: 224-238, 2008.
34. Rack PMH, Westbury DR. Effects of length and stimulus rate on tension in isometric cat soleus muscle. J Physiol 204: 443-460, 1969.
35. Robinson DA. Implications of neural networks for how we think about brain function. Behav Brain Sci 15: 644-655, 1992.
36. Schwartz AB, Kettner RE, Georgopoulos AP. Primate motor cortex and free arm movements to visual targets in 3-dimensional space. 1. Relations between single cell discharge and direction of movement. J Neurosci 8: 2913-2927, 1988.
37. Scott SH. Apparatus for measuring and perturbing shoulder and elbow joint positions and torques during reaching. J Neurosci Methods 89: 119-127, 1999.
38. Scott SH, Brown IE, Loeb GE. Mechanics of feline soleus. 1. Effect of fascicle length and velocity on force output. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 17: 207-219, 1996.
39. Scott SH, Kalaska JF. Reaching movements with similar hand paths but different arm orientations. I. Activity of individual cells in motor cortex. J Neurophysiol 77: 826-852, 1997.
40. Sergio LE, Kalaska JF. Changes in the temporal pattern of primary motor cortex activity in a directional isometric force versus limb movement task. J Neurophysiol 80: 1577-1583, 1998.
41. Todorov E. Direct cortical control of muscle activation in voluntary arm movements: a model. Nat Neurosci 3: 391-398, 2000.
42. Zajac FE. Muscle and tendon: properties, models, scaling, and application to biomechanics and motor control. Crit Rev Biomed Eng 17: 359-411, 1989.