DocumentCode
1875552
Title
Motor Primitives and Rehabilitation
Author
Bizzi, Emilio
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.
fYear
2007
fDate
27-29 Sept. 2007
Firstpage
20
Lastpage
22
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Virtual Rehabilitation, 2007
Conference_Location
Venice, Italy
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-1204-4
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-1204-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICVR.2007.4362123
Filename
4362123
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