Motor nucleus activity fails to predict extraocular muscle forces in ocular convergence

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2863-2873

  Miller, Joel M ^a   Davison, Ryan C ^b   Gamlin, Paul D ^b  

^a SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Abducens; Final common path; Missing force paradox; Muscle force; Oculomotor nucleus; Vergence

Indexed keywords

ABDUCENS NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE FIXATION; EYE POSITION; MEDIAL RECTUS MUSCLE; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FORCE TRANSDUCER; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OCULOMOTOR NUCLEUS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; RHESUS MONKEY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TRANSDUCER;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MACACA MULATTA; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES;

EID: 79959339852     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00935.2010     Document Type: Article

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