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J Neurophysiol 88: 1059-1063, 2002;
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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 88 No. 2 August 2002, pp. 1059-1063
Copyright ©2002 by the American Physiological Society

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Electromyographic Responses to an Unexpected Load in Fast Voluntary Movements: Descending Regulation of Segmental Reflexes

Mark B. Shapiro,1 Gerald L. Gottlieb,2 Charity G. Moore,3 and Daniel M. Corcos1,4,5

 1School of Kinesiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60608;  2Neuromuscular Research Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215;  3Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Norman J. Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208;  4Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612;  5Departments of Bioengineering, Physical Therapy, and Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612

Shapiro, Mark B., Gerald L. Gottlieb, Charity G. Moore, and Daniel M. Corcos. Electromyographic Responses to an Unexpected Load in Fast Voluntary Movements: Descending Regulation of Segmental Reflexes. J. Neurophysiol. 88: 1059-1063, 2002. This study examined the effects of unexpected loading on muscle activation during fast goal-oriented movements. We tested the hypothesis that the electromyographic (EMG) response to an unexpected load occurs at a short latency after the difference between the expected and the unexpected movement velocity exceeds a fixed threshold. Subjects performed two movement tasks as follows: 1) 30° fast elbow flexion movement with an inertial load added by a torque motor; and 2) 50° fast elbow flexion movement with no added load. These movement tasks were chosen to have similar timing parameters, such as movement time, time-to-peak velocity, and duration of the first agonist burst, while the magnitudes of the angular displacement, velocity, and acceleration were different. In task 1, in random trials a viscous load was substituted for the inertial load at movement onset. In task 2, the same viscous load was added in random trials. The earliest consistent response to the unexpected load was detected in the agonist (biceps) EMG at the same time, about 200 ms from the EMG onset, in both tasks. However, the velocity errors were different in the two tasks and no velocity error threshold dependency could be found. Therefore we reject the hypothesis that the timing of the EMG response to an unexpected load is related to a velocity error threshold. Instead, we suggest that the timing of the EMG response is primarily determined by descending regulation of segmental reflex gain.




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