caa a22 4500 445354569 CHVBK 20180317142855.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00221-010-2474-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00221-010-2474-1 Doing better than your best: loud auditory stimulation yields improvements in maximal voluntary force [Elektronische Daten] [Anam Anzak, Huiling Tan, Alek Pogosyan, Peter Brown] Could task performance be constrained by our ability to fully engage necessary neural processing through effort of will? The StartReact phenomenon suggests that this might be the case, as voluntary reaction times are substantially reduced by loud sounds. Here, we show that loud auditory stimulation can also be associated with an improvement in the force and speed of force development when 18 healthy subjects are repeatedly asked to make a maximal grip as fast and as strongly as possible. Peak grip force was increased by 7.2±1.4% (SEM) (P<0.0001), and the rate of force development was increased by 17.6±2.0% (P≪0.00001), when imperative visual cues were accompanied by a loud auditory stimulus rather than delivered alone. This implies that loud auditory stimuli may allow motor pathways to be optimised beyond what can be achieved by effort of will alone. Springer-Verlag, 2010 Auditory nationallicence Force nationallicence Premotor reaction time nationallicence Startle nationallicence Anzak Anam Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, 33 Queen Square, London, UK aut Tan Huiling Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, 33 Queen Square, London, UK aut Pogosyan Alek Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, 33 Queen Square, London, UK aut Brown Peter Department of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford, Level 6, West Wing John Radcliffe Hospital, OX3 9DU, Oxford, UK aut Experimental Brain Research Springer-Verlag 208/2(2011-01-01), 237-243 0014-4819 208:2<237 2011 208 221 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-010-2474-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-010-2474-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Anzak Anam Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, 33 Queen Square, London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tan Huiling Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, 33 Queen Square, London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pogosyan Alek Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, 33 Queen Square, London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brown Peter Department of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford, Level 6, West Wing John Radcliffe Hospital, OX3 9DU, Oxford, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Experimental Brain Research Springer-Verlag 208/2(2011-01-01), 237-243 0014-4819 208:2<237 2011 208 221 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer