Abstract
It is a commonplace that to produce even the simplest natural behaviors, the central nervous system must generate complex patterns of motor commands. From the standpoint of control theory, a motor command is a way to achieve a desired goal. In many cases, motor goals may be formulated as movements, that is as temporal sequences of positions to be assumed by a limb or by a limb’s endpoint. From the standpoint of information processing, a motor command is a way to encode a desired behavior. Thus, a task such as “grab the cup on the table” may be represented by one of the possible command patterns that our nervous system sets up for its execution.
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Mussa-Ivaldi, F.A. (2000). How Much Coordination Can be Obtained without Representing Time?. In: Winters, J.M., Crago, P.E. (eds) Biomechanics and Neural Control of Posture and Movement. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2104-3_25
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