Motor Learning: A Cortical System for Adaptive Motor Control

Reza Shadmehr

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.05.071

Motor Learning: A Cortical System for Adaptive Motor Control

Curr Biol. 2018 Jul 23;28(14):R793-R795. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.05.071.

Author

Reza Shadmehr¹

Affiliation

¹ Laboratory for Computational Motor Control, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. Electronic address: Shadmehr@jhu.edu.

PMID: 30040941
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.05.071

Abstract

Neurons in various areas of the frontal and parietal lobes can be distinguished based on their preference for the direction of reach errors. Stimulation of these neurons corrects for those errors, uncovering a cortical system for adaptive motor control.

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MeSH terms

Neurons*
Parietal Lobe*