Does Startle Explain the Exaggerated First Response to a Transient Perturbation?
- 1 April 2008
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews
- Vol. 36 (2), 76-82
- https://doi.org/10.1097/jes.0b013e318168f1ce
Abstract
Here we review recent experimental evidence suggesting that exaggerated muscle response to an unfamiliar transient perturbation consists of combined postural and startle responses. Summation of these two independent responses explains the experimental data and suggests that habituation consists of the extinction of the startle response leaving only the postural response.Keywords
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