Movement control: Sensors of muscle length and force and their reflexes
Title
1 Lesson overview
2 Learning Objectives
3 Terminology: Lower and Upper Motor neurons
4 Revision of how we match the force we produce to the task we want to do
5 Sensors of muscle stretch and of muscle tension
6 Muscle sensors monitor muscle length and Tendon sensors monitor muscle force
7 What happens to the spindle when the muscle contracts?
1. 7.1 Spindle efferents readjust spindle length
2. 7.2 Alpha-Gamma co-activation when muscles contract
8 Lovely revision or summary material on muscle spindles and motor units
9 Golgi tendon organs monitor muscle tension (force)
1. 9.1 When Golgi tendon organs play their role
10 The reflexes elicited by muscle spindles and GTOs
11 A simple - and silly - way to understand population coding

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