ArticleThe Journal of physiology2014
Corticospinal modulation induced by sounds depends on action preparedness.
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- Altered frontoparietal activity in acoustic startle priming tasks during reticulospinal tract facilitation: An fNIRS study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- The effects of conditioning startling acoustic stimulation (SAS) on the corticospinal motor system: a SAS-TMS study.Experimental brain research · 2019Article
- High-intensity transcranial magnetic stimulation reveals differential cortical contributions to prepared responses.Journal of neurophysiology · 2019Article
- Impaired posture, movement preparation, and execution during both paretic and nonparetic reaching following stroke.Journal of neurophysiology · 2019Article
- A Review on the Relationship Between Sound and Movement in Sports and Rehabilitation.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Review
- StartReact effects in first dorsal interosseous muscle are absent in a pinch task, but present when combined with elbow flexion.PloS one · 2018Article
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- Differential contributions to the interception of occluded ballistic trajectories by the temporoparietal junction, area hMT/V5+, and the intraparietal cortex.Journal of neurophysiology · 2017Article
- Erratum.Physiological reports · 2017Article
- Cerebellar anodal tDCS increases implicit learning when strategic re-aiming is suppressed in sensorimotor adaptation.PloS one · 2017Article
- Different Effects of Startling Acoustic Stimuli (SAS) on TMS-Induced Responses at Rest and during Sustained Voluntary Contraction.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2016Article
- Two-stage muscle activity responses in decisions about leg movement adjustments during trip recovery.Journal of neurophysiology · 2016Article
- Sound-evoked vestibular stimulation affects the anticipation of gravity effects during visual self-motion.Experimental brain research · 2015Article
- Degraded expression of learned feedforward control in movements released by startle.Experimental brain research · 2015Article
- The early release of actions by loud sounds in muscles with distinct connectivity.Experimental brain research · 2014Article
- Cortical involvement in the StartReact effect.Neuroscience · 2014Article
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Abstract
A loud acoustic stimulus (LAS) presented during movement preparation can induce an early release of the prepared action. Because loud sound has been found to have an inhibitory effect on motor cortex excitability, it is possible that the motor cortex plays little role in the early release of prepared responses. We sought to shed new light on this suggestion by probing changes in corticospinal excitability after LAS presentation during preparation for an anticipatory action. Unexpectedly, we show that the changes in corticospinal excitability after LAS presentation are not fixed. Based on the magnitude of motor-evoked potentials elicited by transcranial magnetic and electric stimulation of the motor cortex, we demonstrate that the effects of auditory stimuli on corticospinal excitability depend on the level of readiness for action: inhibition in early preparation and facilitation close to movement onset. We also show that auditory stimuli can regulate intracortical excitability by increasing intracortical facilitation and reducing short-interval intracortical inhibition. Together, these findings indicate that, at least in part, the early release of motor responses by auditory stimuli involves the motor cortex.
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