HIGHER NERVOUS FUNCTIONS - ORIENTING REFLEX
HIGHER NERVOUS FUNCTIONS - ORIENTING REFLEX
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DOI:
10.1146/annurev.ph.25.030163.002553
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发表时间:
1963-01-01
影响因子:
18.2
通讯作者:
SOKOLOV, EN
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作者:
SOKOLOV, EN
The orienting reflex as a complex functional system includes the integrative activities of different brain areas. Its distinguishing characteristic is that it arises in response to novelty. It depends upon elaboration of a nervous model of stimulus and the mismatch between the model and a new stimulus. The elaboration of the neuron model consists in fixation by the nervous system of stimulus traces. The origin of the orienting reflex apparently lies in a mismatch of extrapolatory impulses and afferent signals reaching common efferent neurons. The modifications of the EEG, the shift in steady potential of the cortex, and the increase in functional state represent components of the orienting reflex arising in response to any change of a repetitive stimulus. A special component of this reflex is a local intracortical activation, arising as a result of cortical stimulation by meaningful specific sensory information in the absence of reticular formation activation. To explain both the appearance and the extinction of local cortical activation, a hypothesis involving interaction of afferent, extrapolatory, and comparator neurons with glial cells is offered. The molecular mechanism of the memory trace is discussed. The orienting reflex at the neuronal level converts nonresponsive into responsive neurons, produces facilitation and enhancement of unit responses, and increases critical flicker fusion frequency. Analysis of this reflex indicates that it facilitates the transmission of information at all levels of the analyzers. 145 references.