Book chapter
Motor Primitives
Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, pp 1023-1040
2009
Abstract
The spinal cord of tetrapods manages the complexity of movement by organizing muscle recruitment in a modular fashion. Reflex and locomotor behaviors may be composed from a collection of simpler building blocks, or spinal motor primitives, recruited by the pattern generator systems for these behaviors. These may allow straightforward construction of motion, interaction, and control and may ‘bootstrap’ early motor learning during development.
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Details
- Title
- Motor Primitives
- Creators
- S.F. Giszter - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, pp 1023-1040
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Neurobiology and Anatomy
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-105000563529
- Other Identifier
- 991019173652204721