Interactions between stretch and startle reflexes produce task-appropriate rapid postural reactions

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue JAN, 2015, Pages

  Shemmell, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Long latency stretch reflex; Motor cortex; Movement preparation; Startle response; StartReact

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BODY POSTURE; HUMAN; LATENT INHIBITION; LATENT PERIOD; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NONHUMAN; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIMATE; REVIEW; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; STARTLE REFLEX; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION;

EID: 84922229039     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2015.00002     Document Type: Review

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