The construction of movement by the spinal cord
- 1 February 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Neuroscience
- Vol. 2 (2) , 162-167
- https://doi.org/10.1038/5721
Abstract
We used a computational analysis to identify the basic elements with which the vertebrate spinal cord constructs one complex behavior. This analysis extracted a small set of muscle synergies from the range of muscle activations generated by cutaneous stimulation of the frog hindlimb. The flexible combination of these synergies was able to account for the large number of different motor patterns produced by different animals. These results therefore demonstrate one strategy used by the vertebrate nervous system to produce movement in a computationally simple manner.Keywords
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