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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 81 No. 1 January 1999,
pp. 319-333
Copyright ©1999 The American Physiological Society
1 Research Service (151S), Veterans Affairs Medical Center; 2 Department of Neurosurgery and 3 Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse, Syracuse, New York 13210
Hoffman, Donna S. and Peter L. Strick. Step-tracking movements of the wrist. IV. Muscle activity associated with movements in different directions. J. Neurophysiol. 81: 319-333, 1999. We examined the patterns of muscle activity associated with multiple directions of step-tracking movements of the wrist in humans and monkeys. Human subjects made wrist movements to 12 different targets that required varying amounts of flexion-extension and radial-ulnar deviation. Wrist muscles displayed two patterns of electromyographic (EMG) modulation as movement direction changed: amplitude graded and temporally shifted. The amplitude-graded pattern was characterized by modulation of the quantity of muscle activity that occurred during two distinct time periods, an agonist burst interval that began before movement onset and an antagonist burst interval that began just after movement onset. The timing of muscle activity over the two intervals showed little variation with changes in movement direction. For some directions of movement, EMG activity was present over both time intervals, resulting in "double bursts." Modulation of activity during the agonist burst interval was particularly systematic and was well fit by a cosine function. In contrast, the temporally shifted pattern was characterized by a gradual change in the timing of a single burst of muscle activity. The burst occurred at a time intermediate between the agonist and antagonist burst intervals. The temporally shifted pattern was seen less frequently than the amplitude-graded pattern and was present only in selected wrist muscles for specific directions of movement. Monkeys made wrist movements to 8-16 different targets that required varying amounts of flexion-extension and radial-ulnar deviation. These movements were performed more slowly than those of human subjects. The wrist muscles of the monkeys we examined displayed the amplitude-graded pattern of activity but not the temporally shifted pattern. Stimulation of individual wrist muscles in monkeys resulted in wrist movements that were markedly curved, particularly for the wrist extensors. These results indicate that step-tracking movements of the wrist are generated mainly by using the amplitude-graded pattern to modulate muscle activity. We propose that this pattern reflects a central process that decomposes an intended movement into an agonist, "propulsive" component and an antagonist, "braking" component. Separate bursts of muscle activity then are generated to control each component. On the other hand, we argue that the temporally shifted pattern may function to reduce the amount of movement curvature associated with the activation of wrist muscles.
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