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Modularity, flexibility, speed and stability: compromises in spinal reflex behaviours
Proceedings of the 1997 American Control Conference (Cat. No.97CH36041), v 5, pp 3277-3280 vol.5
1997
Abstract
The motor primitive concept has proven a useful one. It may be most effective to describe reflexes. The success of a force-field description for capturing multi-joint dynamic feedback effects in reflex behaviors in a simple way supports the force-field primitive framework. In the work summarized here reflexes can be expressed as a superposition of fields. It is possible that the primitives found at the spinal level in frogs and rats in reflex behaviors could also be directly incorporated in higher motor learning. Alternatively the primitives could form a way station that has been used in evolution and/or transiently during ontogeny to bootstrap stable learning systems which ultimately produce the collection of adult motor processes we think of as human motor learning, while primitives remain as the basis of the reflex repertoire of the unperturbed spinal cord.
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- Title
- Modularity, flexibility, speed and stability: compromises in spinal reflex behaviours
- Creators
- S Giszter - Allegheny CollegeAMER AUTOMAT CONTROL COUNCIL
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the 1997 American Control Conference (Cat. No.97CH36041), v 5, pp 3277-3280 vol.5
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Neurobiology and Anatomy
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1997BJ29B00702
- Other Identifier
- 991019170493304721
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