Search for dissertations about: "Receptive field"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 swedish dissertations containing the words Receptive field.
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1. Postnatal Development of Spinal Nociceptive Pathways: Evidence for Involvement of Experience-Dependent Mechanisms
Abstract : The adult organization and postnatal development of the nociceptive withdrawal reflexes (NWR) of single hindlimb muscles were examined in decerebrate spinal rats using electromyography. In adult rats, NWR were found to perform highly organized sensorimotor transformations, with single muscles receiving excitatory cutaneous input from specific receptive fields (RF) whose distribution of sensitivity reflected the muscles' withdrawal action. READ MORE
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2. Spontaneous Movements during Sleep Guide Spinal Self-organization: Formation and Expression of a Memory Trace
Abstract : During development, information about the three-dimensional shape and mechanical properties of the body is laid down in the synaptic connectivity of sensorimotor systems through adaptive mechanisms. In spinal reflex systems, this enables the fast transformation of complex sensory information into adequate correction of movements. READ MORE
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3. Neural limits of visual resolution
Abstract : Aims: The aim of this thesis was to formulate a model of retinal neural circuitry in humans based on morphological estimates of retinal cone and ganglion cell populations, to compare results based on this model to psychophysical measurements of visual resolution and identify the retinal neural factors that limit visual resolution.Materials & Methods: Total displacement of central ganglion cells from foveal cones was obtained by estimating the length of fibers of Henle in four human retinas along the nasal or vertical hemi-meridians. READ MORE
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4. Functional organization of spinal nociceptive pathways: evidence for a modular organization of spinal nociceptive reflex systems
Abstract : The functional organization of the hindlimb withdrawal reflex system was studied in the rat. For the reflex pathway to each muscle, a "mirror-image" relationship was found between the spatial distribution of sensitivity within its cutaneous receptive field and the pattern of cutaneous unloading ensuing on muscle contraction. READ MORE
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5. Time-Lapse Bright-Field Microscopy and Image Acquisition of In-Vitro Neural Stem Cells
Abstract : This project involves development of a system for time-lapse image acquisition of neural stem cells. The purpose of analyzing time sequences is to find migrational patterns that are characteristic for different cell types. READ MORE
