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Pointing Treatments Are Task Relevant: A Visuomotor Priming Study

The present study focused on priming effects on pointing with everyday objects. In a set of four experiments, a visuomotor priming paradigm was used to investigate the nature of visuomotor processing (automatic versus task relevant). By manipulating congruency of orientation and location we found that location congruency facilitates the initiation time of pointing whereas orientation congruency...

Visuomotor priming by pictures of hand postures: perspective matters.

Observing hand postures interacts with the preparation of similar actions. This may be due to motor encoding of the observed displays and/or to enhanced visual processing induced by motor planning. We studied the effects of the observer's perspective on motor representation, using a visuomotor priming task with simple responses. Participants were asked to grasp a bar in horizontal or vertical o...

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Inflammatory cells in rat skeletal muscle are elevated after electrically stimulated contractions.

We determined the effect of muscle contractions resulting from high-frequency electrical stimulation (HFES) on inflammatory cells in rat tibialis anterior (TA), plantaris (Pln), and soleus (Sol) muscles at 6, 24, and 72 h post-HFES. A minimum of four and a maximum of seven rats were analyzed at each time point. HFES, applied to the sciatic nerve, caused the Sol and Pln to contract concentricall...

Integrative Physiology Chronic Electrical Neuronal Stimulation Increases Cardiac Parasympathetic Tone by Eliciting Neurotrophic Effects

Rationale: Recently, we provided a technique of chronic high-frequency electric stimulation (HFES) of the right inferior ganglionated plexus for ventricular rate control during atrial fibrillation in dogs and humans. In these experiments, we observed a decrease of the intrinsic ventricular rate during the first 4 to 5 months when HFES was intermittently shut off. Objective: We thus hypothesized...