Journal article
Motor primitives--new data and future questions
Current opinion in neurobiology, v 33
Aug 2015
PMID: 25912883
Abstract
Motor primitives allow integration across scales in the motor system and may link movement construction and circuit organization. This review examines support for primitives, and new data relating primitives to concrete circuit elements across species. Both kinematic motor primitives and muscle synergy/kinetic motor primitives are reviewed. Motor primitives allow a modular hierarchy that may be re-used by volitional systems in novel ways. They can provide a developmental bootstrap for ethologically important actions. Collections of primitives somewhat constrain motor acts, but at the same time sets of primitives facilitate the rapid construction of these constrained actions, and can allow use of simpler controls. Novel motor skill likely requires augmentation to transcend the constraints present in initial collections of low level motor primitives. The benefits and limitations of motor primitives and the recognized knowledge gaps and needs for future research are briefly discussed.
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- Title
- Motor primitives--new data and future questions
- Creators
- Simon F Giszter - Neurobiology and Anatomy, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19129 USA. Electronic address: sgiszter@drexelmed.edu
- Publication Details
- Current opinion in neurobiology, v 33
- Publisher
- Elsevier; England
- Grant note
- NS072651 / NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS072651 / NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS054894 / NINDS NIH HHS NS054894 / NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS040412 / NINDS NIH HHS
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Neurobiology and Anatomy
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000359960800022
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84928119407
- Other Identifier
- 991014878090004721
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