ArticleNeuroscience letters2019
Muscular effort increases hand-blink reflex magnitude.
Article in Neuroscience letters, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- A Robust Approach to Quantify Nocifensive Blink Reflex Responsiveness.The European journal of neuroscience · 2026Article
- System-level hypothesis of dopamine imbalance in early multiple sclerosis.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- The blink reflex and its modulation - Part 1: Physiological mechanisms.Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2024Review
- The role of early attachment experiences in modulating defensive peripersonal space.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- "Surrounded, detached": the relationship between defensive peripersonal space and personality.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
Defensive motor responses elicited by sudden environmental stimuli are finely modulated by their behavioural relevance to maximise the organism's survival. One such response, the blink reflex evoked by intense electrical stimulation of the median nerve (Hand-Blink Reflex; HBR), has been extensively used to derive fine-grained maps of defensive peripersonal space. However, as other subcortical reflexes, the HBR might also be modulated by lower-level factors that do not bear direct relevance to the defensive value of blinking, thus posing methodological and interpretive problems. Here, we tested whether HBR magnitude is affected by the muscular effort present when holding the hand in certain postures. We found that HBR magnitude increases with muscular effort, an effect most likely mediated by the increased corticospinal drive. However, we found strong evidence that this effect is substantially smaller than the well-known effect of eye-hand proximity on HBR magnitude. Nonetheless, care should be taken in future experiments to avoid erroneous interpretations of the effects of muscular effort as indicators of behaviour relevance.
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