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The technique of recording from single afferents in intact, unanaesthetised and freely moving cats is to my mind a marvellous achievement. The incredible stability of the recording which allows the study of proprioceptive mechanisms while the animals are moving has resulted in many interesting findings and a lot more is to be expected. The papers by Loeb and Hoffer (1981) and by Prochazka and Wand (1981) describe fundamental and important aspects of the system in action and the findings elucidate facets of the system which have not been studied with the previously available method of recording from intact human subjects.
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Vallbo, Å. (1981). A critique of the papers by Loeb and Hoffer; and Prochazka and Wand. In: Taylor, A., Prochazka, A. (eds) Muscle Receptors and Movement. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06022-1_26
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