Parabolic movement primitives and cortical states: Merging optimality with geometric invariance

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 159-184

  Polyakov, Felix ^a   Stark, Eran ^b   Drori, Rotem ^b   Abeles, Moshe ^b,c   Flash, Tamar ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Drawing primitives; Equi affine geometry; Geometric invariants; Hidden Markov modeling; Neural representation

Indexed keywords

DRAWING PRIMITIVES; EQUI-AFFINE GEOMETRY; GEOMETRIC INVARIANTS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELING; NEURAL REPRESENTATION;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MOTORS;

LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

ANIMAL; ARM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN CORTEX; CYTOLOGY; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 63149119784     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: 14320770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-008-0287-0     Document Type: Article

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