From spontaneous motor activity to coordinated behaviour: a developmental model.

ABSTRACT: In mammals, the developmental path that links the primary behaviours observed during foetal stages to the full fledged behaviours observed in adults is still beyond our understanding. Often theories of motor control try to deal with the process of incremental learning in an abstract and modular way without establishing any correspondence with the mammalian developmental stages. In this paper, we propose a computational model that links three distinct behaviours which appear at three different stages of development. In order of appearance, these behaviours are: spontaneous motor activity (SMA), reflexes, and coordinated behaviours, such as locomotion. The goal of our model is to address in silico four hypotheses that are currently hard to verify in vivo: First, the hypothesis that spinal re

SUBMITTER: Marques HG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4109855 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature