New Models for Motor Control

Autor: Altman, Jennifer S., Kien, Jenny
Zdroj: Neural Computation; June 1989, Vol. 1 Issue: 2 p173-183, 11p
Abstrakt: What do a prototype robot (Brooks 1989) and a model for the control of behavioral choice in insects (Altman and Kien 1987a) have in common? And what do they share with a scratching cat (Shadmehr 1989)? The answer is distributed control systems that do not depend on a central command center for the execution of behavioral outputs. The first two in particular are examples of a growing trend to replace the long-held concept of linear hierarchical control of motor output with one of decentralized, distributed control, with inputs at many levels and the output a consensus of the activity in several centers.
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