Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-1-2019
Journal
Nature Neuroscience
Volume
22
Issue
4
First Page
529
Last Page
533
URL with Digital Object Identifier
10.1038/s41593-019-0336-0
Abstract
© 2019, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature America, Inc. Motor behaviour is most efficiently controlled by correcting only disturbances that influence task success. It is currently thought that such control is computed within a transcortical feedback pathway. Here we show that, for postural hand control, even the fastest spinal feedback pathway can produce efficient corrective responses, forcing a re-evaluation of how the nervous system derives the control laws that support motor behavior.
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Notes
This is a pre-print, originally shared at: Spinal stretch reflexes exploit musculoskeletal redundancy to support postural hand control Jeffrey Weiler, Paul L Gribble, J. Andrew Pruszynski bioRxiv 270116; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/270116 The publisher's version can be found at : Weiler, J., Gribble, P.L. & Pruszynski, J.A. Spinal stretch reflexes support efficient hand control. Nat Neurosci 22, 529–533 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-019-0336-0