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(10) Jan 12, Sensorimotor transformation (hs)

Topics addressed in the lecture:

  • Neural Information flow for movement generation
  • Cortical areas related to action
  • Movement representations in the primary motor and parietal cortex
  • Instructed delay task for neural testing

Examples for question you should be able to answer:

  • Describe the efferent and afferent information flow for planning and executing a reach-out and grasp movement?
  • How are neurons in primary motor cortex tuned in a center-out reaching task? How does decoding with the population vector method work?
  • Describe an experiment to determine the coordinate frame in which reach movements are represented in the parietal cortex.

Important concepts:

  • Sensorimotor transformation
  • Coordinate frames and coordinate transformations
  • Neural tuning specific for action type and movement direction
  • Gain modulation of tuned neural activity

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