Table 2. The physiological functions responsible for changing the attributes of the angular movement.
Angular movement | MN activity | Muscle recruitment |
amplitude | fast | fast |
average position | slow (+fast) | slow (+fast) |
frequency | CPG |
Fast and slow relate to fast and slow muscle fibres or motoneurons (MNs), respectively. (+fast) means that additional activity of the fast muscle fibres (or MNs) substantially contributes to producing the average position of the protractor-retractor angle during oscillation.