Modularity in motor control: from muscle synergies to cognitive action representation

• Main Author: Tamar Flash (auth)
• Other Authors: Andrea d'Avella (auth), Thomas Schack (auth), Yuri P. Ivanenko (auth), Martin Giese (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; action representation; muscle synergies; Motor Primitives; motor learning; compositionality; neural control of movement; Intermittent control; Kinematic invariants; Control architectures; Robotics
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Mastering a rich repertoire of motor behaviors, as humans and other animals do, is a surprising and still poorly understood outcome of evolution, development, and learning. Many degrees-of-freedom, non-linear dynamics, and sensory delays provide formidable challenges for controlling even simple acti...