Motor cortex reflexes associated with learned movement

Science. 1973 Feb 2;179(4072):501-3. doi: 10.1126/science.179.4072.501.

Abstract

In primates, sensory input can generate reflex motor cortex output in association with learned movement when the sensory input has a strong and direct connection to the motor cortex-for example, when a stimulus calling for repositioning of the hand consists of a perturbation of hand position. This finding supports the proposal that neurons of primate motor cortex may function in a transcortical servo-loop.

MeSH terms

  • Action Potentials
  • Animals
  • Conditioning, Operant
  • Electromyography
  • Hand / innervation
  • Hand / physiology
  • Haplorhini
  • Macaca
  • Motor Cortex / physiology*
  • Movement*
  • Muscle Contraction
  • Neurons / physiology*
  • Neurons, Afferent / physiology
  • Reaction Time
  • Reflex
  • Reinforcement, Psychology*
  • Reward
  • Somatosensory Cortex / physiology