Integrating across behaviors and timescales to understand the neural control of movement.

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Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 2024 Feb 13;85:102843. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2024.102843

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Integrating across behaviors and timescales to understand the neural control of movement. Dudman Lab

Gmaz JM, Keller JA, Dudman JT, Gallego JA

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Abstract

The nervous system evolved to enable navigation throughout the environment in the pursuit of resources. Evolutionarily newer structures allowed increasingly complex adaptations but necessarily added redundancy. A dominant view of movement neuroscientists is that there is a one-to-one mapping between brain region and function. However, recent experimental data is hard to reconcile with the most conservative interpretation of this framework, suggesting a degree of functional redundancy during the performance of well-learned, constrained behaviors. This apparent redundancy likely stems from the bidirectional interactions between the various cortical and subcortical structures involved in motor control. We posit that these bidirectional connections enable flexible interactions across structures that change depending upon behavioral demands, such as during acquisition, execution or adaptation of a skill. Observing the system across both multiple actions and behavioral timescales can help isolate the functional contributions of individual structures, leading to an integrated understanding of the neural control of movement.

PMID: 38354477 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Integrating across behaviors and timescales to understand the neural control of movement.

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PMID: 38354477 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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