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The volitional nature of the simplest reflex
1Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research, New York State Department of Health, Albany.
Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
Recent studies suggest that none of the behaviors of the vertebrate CNS are fixed responses incapable of change. Even the simplest reflex of all, the two-neuron, monosynaptic spinal stretch reflex (SSR), undergoes adaptive change under appropriate circumstances. Operantly conditioned SSR change occurs gradually over days and weeks and is associated with a complex pattern of CNS plasticity at both spinal and supraspinal sites.