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Motor Reflexes

Motor reflexes is a neurophysiological construct referring to an innate, stereotyped motor response to a specific sensory stimulus that occurs without voluntary control and serves as a foundational mechanism for early sensorimotor development.

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973

Higher Nervous Functions: The Orienting Reflex

E N Sokolov · Annual Review of Physiology · 1963 · 1.1K citations

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Reflex modification in the domain of startle: I. Some empirical findings and their implications for how the nervous system processes sensory input.

Howard S. Hoffman, James R. Ison · Psychological Review · 1980 · 784 citations

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Observations in man upon a blood pressure raising reflex arising from the voluntary muscles

M. Alam, F. H. Smirk · The Journal of Physiology · 1937 · 682 citations

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The Hoffmann reflex: A means of assessing spinal reflex excitability and its descending control in man

Marco Schieppati · Progress in Neurobiology · 1987 · 598 citations

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Synaptic actions in motoneurones by afferents in which may evoke the flexion reflex

Rosamond M. Eccles, A. Lunberg · ARCHIVES ITALIENNES DE BIOLOGIE · 1959 · 493 citations

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    E. Paul Zehr

    University of Victoria, Canada

    32 publications · 2.1K citations

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    John A. Stephens

    Plymouth Marine Laboratory, United Kingdom

    12 publications · 1.4K citations

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  3. AF
    Alain Frigon

    Université de Sherbrooke, Canada

    12 publications · 405 citations

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  4. TK
    Tomoyoshi Komiyama

    Chiba University, Japan

    10 publications · 728 citations

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  5. JD
    Jacques Duysens

    KU Leuven, Belgium

    10 publications · 762 citations

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Institutions

681

  1. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    21 h-index

    57 publications

    4.8K citations

  2. University of Victoria

    Victoria, Canada

    19 h-index

    59 publications

    2.8K citations

  3. University of Alberta

    Edmonton, Canada

    18 h-index

    41 publications

    3.2K citations

  4. University of Copenhagen

    Copenhagen, Denmark

    15 h-index

    39 publications

    4.4K citations

  5. International Collaboration On Repair Discoveries

    Vancouver, Canada

    14 h-index

    37 publications

    1.3K citations

  6. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    13 h-index

    37 publications

    1.1K citations

  7. University of Gothenburg

    Gothenburg, Sweden

    13 h-index

    30 publications

    3.5K citations

  8. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    12 h-index

    22 publications

    1.1K citations

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  1. The Journal of Physiology

    83 publications · 7.9K citations

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  2. Journal of Neurophysiology

    JN · 69 publications · 4.8K citations

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  3. Experimental Brain Research

    47 publications · 2.9K citations

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  4. Brain Research

    48 publications · 2.6K citations

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  5. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry

    37 publications · 1.9K citations

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