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Stimulus-Locked Responses on Human Upper Limb Muscles and Corrective Reaches Are Preferentially Evoked by Low Spatial Frequencies

Rebecca A. Kozak, Philipp Kreyenmeier, Chao Gu, Kevin Johnston and Brian D. Corneil
eNeuro 5 September 2019, 6 (5) ENEURO.0301-19.2019; https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0301-19.2019
Rebecca A. Kozak
1Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada
5Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada
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2Graduate Program in Neuro-Cognitive Psychology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich 80539, Germany
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Chao Gu
3Department of Psychology, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada
5Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada
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4Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada
5Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada
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1Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada
3Department of Psychology, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada
4Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada
5Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada
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Abstract

In situations requiring immediate action, humans can generate visually-guided responses at remarkably short latencies. Here, to better understand the visual attributes that best evoke such rapid responses, we recorded upper limb muscle activity while participants performed visually-guided reaches towards Gabor patches composed of differing spatial frequencies (SFs). We studied reaches initiated from a stable posture (experiment 1, a static condition), or during on-line reach corrections to an abruptly displaced target (experiment 2, a dynamic condition). In both experiments, we detail the latency and prevalence of stimulus-locked responses (SLRs), which are brief bursts of EMG activity that are time-locked to target presentation rather than movement onset. SLRs represent the first wave of EMG recruitment influenced by target presentation, and enable quantification of rapid visuomotor transformations. In both experiments, reach targets composed of low SFs elicited the shortest latency and most prevalent SLRs, with SLR latency increasing and SLR prevalence decreasing for reach targets composed of progressively higher SFs. SLRs could be evoked in either the static or dynamic condition, and when present in experiment 2, were associated with shorter latency and larger magnitude corrections. The results in experiment 2 are consistent with a linkage between the forces produced by SLRs and the earliest portion of on-line reach corrections. Overall, our results demonstrate that stimuli composed of low SFs preferentially evoke the most rapid visuomotor responses that, in the context of rapidly correcting an on-going reaching movement, are associated with earlier and larger on-line reach corrections.

  • EMG
  • on-line correction
  • spatial frequency
  • visually guided reaching

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  • The authors declare no competing financial interests.

  • This work was supported by the Gouvernement du Canada Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant RGPIN 311680 and by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Operating Grant MOP-93796. R.A.K. was supported by an Ontario Graduate Scholarship. C.G. was supported by an NSERC Canada Graduate Doctoral Scholarship.

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.

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Rebecca A. Kozak, Philipp Kreyenmeier, Chao Gu, Kevin Johnston, Brian D. Corneil
eNeuro 5 September 2019, 6 (5) ENEURO.0301-19.2019; DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0301-19.2019

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eNeuro 5 September 2019, 6 (5) ENEURO.0301-19.2019; DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0301-19.2019
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