The volitional nature of the simplest reflex

• Authors: Jonathan R. Wolpaw , Jonathan S. Carp
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Recent studies suggest that none of the behaviors of the vertebrate CNS are fixed responses incapable of change. Even the simplest reflex of all, the two-neuron, monosynaptic spinal stretch reflex (SSR), undergoes adaptive change under appropriate circumstances. Operantly conditioned SSR change occurs gradually over days and weeks and is associated with a complex pattern of CNS plasticity at both spinal and supraspinal sites.

Keywords

EN

LEARNING; MEMORY; PRIMATES; REFLEX; SPINAL CORD

Discipline

• EXPERIMENTAL_BIOLOGY_&_MEDICINE: EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY & MEDICINE

• Publisher: Marceli Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis
• Year: 1993
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 103-111

Contributors

author

Jonathan R. Wolpaw

author

Jonathan S. Carp

• Document Type: paper