Selection of cortical dynamics for motor behaviour by the basal ganglia.

ABSTRACT: The basal ganglia and cortex are strongly implicated in the control of motor preparation and execution. Re-entrant loops between these two brain areas are thought to determine the selection of motor repertoires for instrumental action. The nature of neural encoding and processing in the motor cortex as well as the way in which selection by the basal ganglia acts on them is currently debated. The classic view of the motor cortex implementing a direct mapping of information from perception to muscular responses is challenged by proposals viewing it as a set of dynamical systems controlling muscles. Consequently, the common idea that a competition between relatively segregated cortico-striato-nigro-thalamo-cortical channels selects patterns of activity in the motor cortex is no more sufficien

SUBMITTER: Mannella F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4656718 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature