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Levers to generate movement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

U. Windhorst
Affiliation:
Departments of Clinical Neurosciences and Medical Physiology, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, CanadaT2N 4N1. uwe@cns.ucalgary.ca

Abstract

The following questions are discussed: (1) Who determines the nature of “control variables”? (2) Is the “positional monopoly” healthy? (3) Does a descending command alter reflex threshold alone without eoncomitantly altering stiffness? (4) How does the CNS deal with history-dependent effects? (5) Should we abandon the idea that the CNS controls classical Newtonian variables such as muscle length?

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Open Peer Commentary
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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