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Conserved temporal dynamics and vector superposition of primitives in frog wiping reflexes during spontaneous extensor deletions
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Conserved temporal dynamics and vector superposition of primitives in frog wiping reflexes during spontaneous extensor deletions

Simon F Giszter and William J Kargo
Neurocomputing (Amsterdam), v 32(01-04), pp 775-783
2000

Abstract

Force-field primitives Motor control Reflex behaviors Spinal cord
We use spontaneous motor pattern deletions in spinal frogs to test a computational theory of movement construction. We hypothesize that at the spinal level, operating in isolation from the brain, the forces driving movements are constructed from summation of force-field primitives of fixed temporal dynamics, which can be expressed in the form F(r, r ̇ ,t)= ∑ i A ia(t+τ i)φ i(r, r ̇ ) where A i is a scaling parameter, a( t) is a common timing dynamics for each primitive, time shifted for each by t i and φ(r, r ̇ ) are functions of limb state. In deletions, the force amplitudes, force directions and patterns behave as predicted by this model of movement construction based on summation of force-field primitives.

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