Motor cortical regulation of sparse synergies provides a framework for the flexible control of precision walking

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUN, 2013, Pages

  Krouchev, Nedialko ^a   Drew, Trevor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cat; Locomotion; Motor cortex; Synergy; Voluntary gait modifications

Indexed keywords

CAT; FLEXIBLE CONTROL; MODULAR ORGANISATION; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE ACTIVITIES; MUSCLE SYNERGIES; SYNERGY; VOLUNTARY GAIT MODIFICATIONS;

BIPED LOCOMOTION; MEDICAL COMPUTING; NEUROLOGY;

MUSCLE;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CAT; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; LIMB MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TRAINING; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPARSE SYNERGY; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; WALKING;

EID: 84879035192     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2013.00083     Document Type: Article

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