Covert preparation of a manual response in a ‘go’/’no-go’ saccadic task is driven by execution of the eye movement and not by visual stimulus occurrence.

It has been recently demonstrated that visually guided saccades are linked to changes in muscle excitability in the relaxed upper limb, which are compatible with a covert motor plan encoding a hand movement toward the gaze target. In this study we investigated whether these excitability changes are...

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Main Authors: Claudio eMaioli, Luca eFalciati
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00556/full