Trends in Neurosciences
Volume 6, 1983, Pages 458-463
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The importance of reflexes and their control during jaw movement

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Abstract

Movement generates sensory feedback that often has a tendency to trigger reflex responses in the muscles of the moving part or in muscles elsewhere in the body. Although some of these reflex adjustments are potentially useful, others could prevent normal motor performance. As a consequence, motor control systems must solve the problem of integrating the useful reflexes into the pattern of movement while suppressing the potentially disruptive ones. The masticatory system is one model where this clearly occurs.

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