| Title | The volitional nature of the simplest reflex. |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 1993 |
| Authors | Wolpaw, J, Carp, JS |
| Journal | Acta neurobiologiae experimentalis |
| Volume | 53 |
| Pagination | 103–111 |
| ISSN | 0065-1400 |
| Keywords | behavior, Brain, conditioning, human physiology, Learning, Memory, motoneuron, nature, primate, Reflex, Spinal Cord, spinal site, supra spinal site, vertebrate |
| Abstract | Recent studies suggest that none of the behaviors of the vertebrate CNS are fixed responses incapable of change. Even the simplest reflex of all, the two-neuron, monosynaptic spinal stretch reflex (SSR), undergoes adaptive change under appropriate circumstances. Operantly conditioned SSR change occurs gradually over days and weeks and is associated with a complex pattern of CNS plasticity at both spinal and supraspinal sites. |
| URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8317238 |
