scholarly journals Startle Reduces the TMS-Induced Reaction Time Delay in a Single Limb of a Bimanual Movement

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 1603-1604
Author(s):  
Anthony Carlsen ◽  
Faven Teku ◽  
Dana Maslovat
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Time Delay ◽  
Bimanual Movement ◽  
Induced Reaction

An Examination by Forearm EMG on Pain Reaction Time to Radiant Heat

1993 ◽  
Vol 76 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1139-1146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshiteru Hatayama ◽  
Kayoko Shimizu
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Time Delay ◽  
Skin Temperature ◽  
Motor Response ◽  
Pain Threshold ◽  
Radiant Heat ◽  
Repeated Measurements ◽  
Pain Sensation ◽  
Pain Thresholds ◽  
Pain Reaction

The present study was done to estimate rise in skin temperature during a pain reaction time (pain RT) as a means of investigating why a pricking pain threshold, produced by thermal stimulation using time method, often increases during repeated measurements. The pain RT, or the time-delay between occurrence of pain sensation and a subsequent motor response, was measured by making EMG recording on a forearm. The radiant heat stimuli were three, 200, 300, and 350 mcal/sec./cm2, each of which was given through a round radiation window of an algesiometer head. Analysis showed that the pain RTs would be too short to explain higher pain thresholds often found using the time method.

Rolling balance board of adjustable geometry as a tool to assess balancing skill and to estimate reaction time delay

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (176) ◽  
Author(s):  
Csenge A. Molnar ◽  
Ambrus Zelei ◽  
Tamas Insperger
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Time Delay ◽  
Feedback Control ◽  
Mechanical Model ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Physical Parameters ◽  
Stabilizing Feedback Control ◽  
Model Subject ◽  
Balance Board

The relation between balancing performance and reaction time is investigated for human subjects balancing on rolling balance board of adjustable physical parameters: adjustable rolling radius R and adjustable board elevation h . A well-defined measure of balancing performance is whether a subject can or cannot balance on balance board with a given geometry ( R , h ). The balancing ability is linked to the stabilizability of the underlying two-degree-of-freedom mechanical model subject to a delayed proportional–derivative feedback control. Although different sensory perceptions involve different reaction times at different hierarchical feedback loops, their effect is modelled as a single lumped reaction time delay. Stabilizability is investigated in terms of the time delay in the mechanical model: if the delay is larger than a critical value (critical delay), then no stabilizing feedback control exists. Series of balancing trials by 15 human subjects show that it is more difficult to balance on balance board configuration associated with smaller critical delay, than on balance boards associated with larger critical delay. Experiments verify the feature of the mechanical model that a change in the rolling radius R results in larger change in the difficulty of the task than the same change in the board elevation h does. The rolling balance board characterized by the two well-defined parameters R and h can therefore be a useful device to assess human balancing skill and to estimate the corresponding lumped reaction time delay.

Fractionated Reaction Times and Movement Times of Down Syndrome and Other Adults with Mental Retardation

1991 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter E. Davis ◽  
William A. Sparrow ◽  
Terry Ward
Keyword(s):  
Down Syndrome ◽  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Reaction Time ◽  
Time Delay ◽  
Movement Time ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Elbow Extension ◽  
Total Reaction ◽  
Time Motor ◽  
Total Reaction Time

A fractionation technique was employed to determine the locus of reaction time delay in Down syndrome (DS) and other adult subjects with mental retardation (MH). Twenty-three subjects (8 nondisabled, 8 MH, and 7 DS) responded to a light, sound, and combination light/sound signal. Dependent measures of premotor time, motor time, total reaction time, and movement time were obtained during a 20° elbow extension movement and were analyzed separately. As expected, both MH and DS subjects were slower and more variable in their responses than the subjects without disabilities. In turn, DS subjects were significantly slower but not more variable than the MH subjects. There were no significant differences between the DS and MH subjects on movement times. Evidence for both a specific (premotor) and a generalized (both premotor and motor) locus of delay was found. Some difference in signal effect was also found for the DS subjects.

Stabilization of supply networks with a varying manager-reaction time delay

2020 ◽  
Vol 357 (17) ◽  
pp. 12346-12363
Author(s):  
Lizhao Yan ◽  
Fei Xu ◽  
Jian Liu ◽  
Kok Lay Teo ◽  
Mingyong Lai
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Time Delay ◽  
Supply Networks

Startle-induced reaction time shortening is not modified by prepulse inhibition

2005 ◽  
Vol 165 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josep Valls-Solé ◽  
Markus Kofler ◽  
Hatice Kumru ◽  
Juan Manuel Castellote ◽  
Maria Teresa Sanegre
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Prepulse Inhibition ◽  
Induced Reaction

scholarly journals Subcritical Hopf bifurcations in a car-following model with reaction-time delay

2006 ◽  
Vol 462 (2073) ◽  
pp. 2643-2670 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gábor Orosz ◽  
Gábor Stépán
Keyword(s):  
Hopf Bifurcation ◽  
Reaction Time ◽  
Time Delay ◽  
Hopf Bifurcations ◽  
Highway Traffic ◽  
Subcritical Case ◽  
Car Following ◽  
Car Following Model ◽  
Flow Equilibrium ◽  
The Stability

A nonlinear car-following model of highway traffic is considered, which includes the reaction-time delay of drivers. Linear stability analysis shows that the uniform flow equilibrium of the system loses its stability via Hopf bifurcations and thus oscillations can appear. The stability and amplitudes of the oscillations are determined with the help of normal-form calculations of the Hopf bifurcation that also handles the essential translational symmetry of the system. We show that the subcritical case of the Hopf bifurcation occurs robustly, which indicates the possibility of bistability. We also show how these oscillations lead to spatial wave formation as can be observed in real-world traffic flows.

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