An agonist-antagonist cerebellar nuclear system controlling eyelid kinematics during motor learning

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn , Issue MARCH, 2012, Pages 1-18

  Sánchez Campusano, Raudel ^a   Gruart, Agnès ^a   Fernández Mas, Rodrigo ^b   Delgado García, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PSIQUIATRÍA RAMÓN DE LA FUENTE MUÑIZ   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Agonist antagonist system; Cerebellar interpositus neurons; Classical eyeblink conditioning; Dispersion patterns; Eyelid kinematics; Kinetic neural commands; Motor learning; Timing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EYELID MOVEMENT; EYELID REFLEX; FLEXOR REFLEX; INTERPOSITUS NUCLEUS; KINEMATICS; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE;

EID: 84859332640     PISSN: 16625129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2012.00008     Document Type: Article

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