Muscle Spindles and Their Motor Control

1964 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. B. C. Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Motor Control ◽  
Muscle Spindles

The role of muscle spindles in constraining motor control

2002 ◽  
Vol 44-46 ◽  
pp. 943-949 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bjørn Gilbert Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Motor Control ◽  
Muscle Spindles

The Mammalian Muscle Spindle

Physiology ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
U Proske
Keyword(s):  
Motor Control ◽  
Muscle Spindle ◽  
Muscle Spindles ◽  
Mammalian Muscle ◽  
Intrafusal Fibers ◽  
Sensory Endings

A brief, summarizing description is given of the structure and physiology of the mammalian muscle spindle. The question is addressed, What might be the roles of the three different kinds of intrafusal fibers on which the sensory endings lie? The role of muscle spindles in proprioception and in motor control is discussed.

Physiologic Studies Provide New Perspectives on Early Speech Development

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
Erin M. Wilson ◽  
Ignatius S. B. Nip
Keyword(s):  
Motor Control ◽  
Motor Development ◽  
Motion Tracking ◽  
Speech Development ◽  
Speech Motor Control ◽  
Therapeutic Approaches ◽  
Facial Motion ◽  
Disordered Speech ◽  
Speech Motor ◽  
Physiologic Data

Abstract Although certain speech development milestones are readily observable, the developmental course of speech motor control is largely unknown. However, recent advances in facial motion tracking systems have been used to investigate articulator movements in children and the findings from these studies are being used to further our understanding of the physiologic basis of typical and disordered speech development. Physiologic work has revealed that the emergence of speech is highly dependent on the lack of flexibility in the early oromotor system. It also has been determined that the progression of speech motor development is non-linear, a finding that has motivated researchers to investigate how variables such as oromotor control, cognition, and linguistic factors affect speech development in the form of catalysts and constraints. Physiologic data are also being used to determine if non-speech oromotor behaviors play a role in the development of speech. This improved understanding of the physiology underlying speech, as well as the factors influencing its progression, helps inform our understanding of speech motor control in children with disordered speech and provide a framework for theory-driven therapeutic approaches to treatment.

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