Title :
Motor Primitives and Rehabilitation
Author_Institution :
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, 46-6189, 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Phone: 617.253.5769; e-mail: ebizzi@mit.edu.
Abstract :
To generate movements the CNS must handle the large number of degrees of freedom of the musculo-skeletal apparatus. Our results show the CNS solves this problem with an architecture based on the utilization of discrete building blocks to construct a variety of movements. The experimental evidence indicates that a small number of building blocks can explain a large fraction of the variation in the muscle pattern. The results represent a remarkable simplification in view of the high dimensionality of the space of all possible muscle pattern.
Keywords :
Central nervous system; Character generation; Data mining; Electromyography; Hip; Knee; Laboratories; Muscles; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Pattern analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Virtual Rehabilitation, 2007
Conference_Location :
Venice, Italy
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1204-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1204-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICVR.2007.4362123
