Neurobiology - Making smooth moves

被引:34
作者
Sejnowski, TJ
机构
[1] Salk Inst Biol Studies, Howard Hughes Med Inst, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA
[2] Univ Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
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10.1038/29406
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
In making any movement (say, for instance, reaching for an object) our limbs usually take a smooth trajectory. That has been taken to mean that the body's motor system minimizes jerkiness. Instead, however, smoothness may be a by-product of a more fundamental computational goal of the motor system -- that of balancing speed and accuracy when activity-dependent ‘noise' in the neural control systems is taken into account.
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