Publications by authors named "Christie McShane"

Like most of the cranial muscles involved in speech, the trigeminally innervated anterior digastric muscles are controlled by descending corticobulbar projections from the primary motor cortex (M1) of each hemisphere. We hypothesized that changes in corticobulbar M1 excitability during speech production would show a hemispheric asymmetry favoring the left side, which is the dominant hemisphere for language processing in most strongly right handed subjects. Fifteen volunteers aged 24.

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Objective: To evaluate the time-course of changes in masseter motoneuron pool excitability following transcranial magnetic stimulation of motor cortex, and relate this to the duration of the masseter cortical silent period (CSP).

Methods: Surface EMG was recorded bilaterally from masseter and digastric muscles in 13 subjects. Focal TMS was applied at 1.

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We compared performance of younger and older human participants to that of younger and older dogs on tasks that evaluate object discrimination, egocentric spatial ability, object recognition, spatial memory, and cognitive flexibility. Our goal was to determine whether (i) tasks sensitive to advanced age in dogs are also age-sensitive in humans; (ii) the pattern of task difficulty observed in dogs mirrors that observed in humans; (iii) dogs and humans use similar strategies to solve equivalent tasks. Dogs performed more poorly than humans on reversal tasks that evaluate cognitive flexibility.

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