A neural basis for motor primitives in the spinal cord. [PDF]
J Neurosci, 2010 Motor primitives and modularity may be important in biological movement control. However, their neural basis is not understood. To investigate this, we recorded 302 neurons, making multielectrode recordings in the spinal cord gray of spinalized frogs, at 400, 800, and 1200 μm depth, at the L2/L3 segment border.
Hart CB, Giszter SF.
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Learning of action through adaptive combination of motor primitives [PDF]
Nature, 2000 Understanding how the brain constructs movements remains a fundamental challenge in neuroscience. The brain may control complex movements through flexible combination of motor primitives, where each primitive is an element of computation in the sensorimotor map that transforms desired limb trajectories into motor commands.
Reza Shadmehr, Kurt Thoroughman
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Motor primitives are determined in early development and are then robustly conserved into adulthood [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019 Simon F Giszter
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On the notion of motor primitives in humans and robots [PDF]
, 2005 This article reviews two reflexive motor patterns in humans: Primitive reflexes and motor primitives. Both terms coexist in the literature of motor development and motor control, yet they are not synonyms. While primitive reflexes are a part of the temporary motor repertoire in early ontogeny, motor primitives refer to sets of motor patterns that are ...
Konczak, Jürgen
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Sex-specific tuning of modular muscle activation patterns for locomotion in young and older adults.
PLoS ONE, 2022 There is increasing evidence that including sex as a biological variable is of crucial importance to promote rigorous, repeatable and reproducible science.
Alessandro Santuz +6 more
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Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2022 Robot kinematic data, despite being high-dimensional, is highly correlated, especially when considering motions grouped in certain primitives. These almost linear correlations within primitives allow us to interpret motions as points drawn close to a ...
Vsevolod Nikulin, Jun Tani
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A framework to identify structured behavioral patterns within rodent spatial trajectories
Scientific Reports, 2021 Animal behavior is highly structured. Yet, structured behavioral patterns—or “statistical ethograms”—are not immediately apparent from the full spatiotemporal data that behavioral scientists usually collect.
Francesco Donnarumma +7 more
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Emergence of functional hierarchy in a multiple timescale neural network model: a humanoid robot experiment. [PDF]
PLoS Computational Biology, 2008 It is generally thought that skilled behavior in human beings results from a functional hierarchy of the motor control system, within which reusable motor primitives are flexibly integrated into various sensori-motor sequence patterns.
Yuichi Yamashita, Jun Tani
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Motor primitives and synergies in the spinal cord and after injury—the current state of play [PDF]
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2013 Simon F Giszter
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Dynamic primitives of motor behavior [PDF]
Biological Cybernetics, 2012 We present in outline a theory of sensorimotor control based on dynamic primitives, which we define as attractors. To account for the broad class of human interactive behaviors-especially tool use-we propose three distinct primitives: submovements, oscillations, and mechanical impedances, the latter necessary for interaction with objects.
Neville Hogan, Dagmar Sternad
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