Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Cognitive Sciences
- Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Cognitive Sciences
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Cognitive Modeling Paradigms
- Part III Computational Modeling of Basic Cognitive Functionalities
- Part IV Computational Modeling in Various Cognitive Fields
- 23 Computational Models of Developmental Psychology
- 24 Computational Models in Personality and Social Psychology
- 25 Computational Modeling in Industrial-Organizational Psychology
- 26 Computational Modeling in Psychiatry
- 27 Computational Psycholinguistics
- 28 Natural Language Understanding and Generation
- 29 Computational Models of Creativity
- 30 Computational Models of Emotion and Cognition-Emotion Interaction
- 31 Computational Approaches to Morality
- 32 Cognitive Modeling in Social Simulation
- 33 Cognitive Modeling for Cognitive Engineering
- 34 Modeling Vision
- 35 Models of Multi-Level Motor Control
- Part V General Discussion
- Index
- References
35 - Models of Multi-Level Motor Control
from Part IV - Computational Modeling in Various Cognitive Fields
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 April 2023
- The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Cognitive Sciences
- Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Cognitive Sciences
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Cognitive Modeling Paradigms
- Part III Computational Modeling of Basic Cognitive Functionalities
- Part IV Computational Modeling in Various Cognitive Fields
- 23 Computational Models of Developmental Psychology
- 24 Computational Models in Personality and Social Psychology
- 25 Computational Modeling in Industrial-Organizational Psychology
- 26 Computational Modeling in Psychiatry
- 27 Computational Psycholinguistics
- 28 Natural Language Understanding and Generation
- 29 Computational Models of Creativity
- 30 Computational Models of Emotion and Cognition-Emotion Interaction
- 31 Computational Approaches to Morality
- 32 Cognitive Modeling in Social Simulation
- 33 Cognitive Modeling for Cognitive Engineering
- 34 Modeling Vision
- 35 Models of Multi-Level Motor Control
- Part V General Discussion
- Index
- References
Summary
Motor neuroscience centers on characterizing human movement, and the way it is represented and generated by the brain. A key concept in this field is that despite the rich repertoire of human movements and their variability across individuals, both the behavioral and neuronal aspects of movement are highly stereotypical, and can be understood in terms of basic principles or low dimensional systems. Highlighting this concept, this chapter outlines three core topics in this research field: (1) Trajectory planning, where prominent theories based on optimal control and geometric invariance aim at describing end-effector kinematics using basic unifying principles; (2) Compositionality, and specifically the ideas of motor primitives and muscle synergies that account for motion generation and muscle activations, using hierarchical low-dimensional structures; and (3) Neural control models, which regard the neural machinery that gives rise to sequences of motor commands, exploiting dynamical systems and artificial neural network approaches.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Cognitive Sciences , pp. 1135 - 1162Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023