Book chapter
Primitives, premotor drives, and pattern generation: a combined computational and neuroethological perspective
Progress in Brain Research, pp 323-346
2007
PMID: 17925255
Abstract
A modular motor organization may be needed to solve the degrees of freedom problem in biological motor control. Reflex elements, kinematic primitives, muscle synergies, force-field primitives and/or pattern generators all have experimental support as modular elements. We discuss the possible relations of force-field primitives, spinal feedback systems, and pattern generation and shaping systems in detail, and review methods for examining underlying motor pattern structure in intact or semi-intact behaving animals. The divisions of systems into primitives, synergies, and rhythmic elements or oscillators suggest specific functions and methods of construction of movement. We briefly discuss the limitations and caveats needed in these interpretations given current knowledge, together with some of the hypotheses arising from these frameworks.
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- Title
- Primitives, premotor drives, and pattern generation: a combined computational and neuroethological perspective
- Creators
- Simon GiszterVidyangi PatilCorey Hart
- Publication Details
- Progress in Brain Research, pp 323-346
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science & Technology
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Neurobiology and Anatomy
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000280608900021
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-34848927442
- Other Identifier
- 991014878083304721
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