Motor primitives in vertebrates and invertebrates.

By Tamar Flash, Binyamin Hochner. 2005

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Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Central pattern generators for locomotion control in animals and robots: A review (2008, background): “…now propose that animal motor control is based on the combination of motor primitives, i.e. that complex movements are generated by combining a finite set of simpler elementary movements (Thoroughman & Shadmehr, 2000; Tresch, Saltiel, d'Avella, & Bizzi, 2002; Todorov, 2004; Flash & Hochner, 2005).”
Reinforcement learning of motor skills with policy gradients (2008, background): “The optimal policies for these tasks can be found in the literature, e.g., inBen-ItzhakandKarniel(inpress) and Flash and Hochner (2005) .”
Gesture-based Object Recognition using Histograms of Guiding Strokes (2012, background): “Interestingly, studies at behavioral and neural level of motor control showed that motor systems use a similar principle of decomposing complex movements into simpler elements, called motor primitives, and combine them when performing a movement [3].”
Imitation and Reinforcement Learning (2010, background): “, paddling a ball with a table-tennis racket, throwing darts, or hitting a tennis ball, it is highly likely that they rely on a small set of motor primitives (MPs) and use imitation as well as reinforcement learning (RL) [1].”
A tutorial on task-parameterized movement learning and retrieval (2015, background): “The potential applications are diverse, with an objective in line with the original purpose of motor primitives to be composed together serially or in parallel [28].”
Muscle synergy patterns as physiological markers of motor cortical damage (2012, methodology): “We found that this merging index (mean ± SE) was significantly higher in the severely impaired subject group [Fugl–Meyer scale (FM) ≤ 30, n = 10] than in the mildly to moderately impaired group (FM > 30, n = 21) [three-way ANOVA: F(1, 30) = 8.”
Learning motor primitives for robotics (2009, background): “, paddling a ball with a table-tennis racket or hitting a tennis ball, it is highly likely that they rely on a small set of motor primitives and use imitation as well as reinforcement learning [1].”
Neuromechanics of muscle synergies for posture and movement. (2007, unknown): “,6].”
Biological underpinnings for lifelong learning machines (2022, background): “Fortunately, it is now becoming possible to map out such widely distributed biological circuits, allowing us to understand how they facilitate task decomposition and detection of task overlap 127–130 .”
Geometrical Invariance and Smoothness Maximization for Task-Space Movement Generation (2016, background): “…... r) = ... r · ...r , where r(t) : [0, T ] → Ed is the end-effector trajectory expressed in the Euclidean space Ed ; the upper dots represent derivatives with respect to time; the · notation represents the inner-product in Ed ; T is the duration of the movement; and B is a set of task-dependent…”
Mapping Sub-Second Structure in Mouse Behavior. (2015, background): “Mouse Body Language: Syllables and Grammar Candidate behavioral modules have been recognized in a variety of different contexts and on a wide range of spatiotemporal scales, and accordingly, researchers have given them a diverse set of names, including motor primitives, behavioral motifs, motor syne”
Towards the neurobiology of emotional body language (2006, unknown): “So far, this hypothesis seems consistent with results from motor control studies showing that the control of multi-joint movements is based on synergies between simpler components that encompass only a limited number of joints 84,85 .”
Hierarchical visuomotor control of humanoids (2018, background): “…enabling subcortical structures such as the basal ganglia to coordinate a motor repertoire; and cortical systems with access to visual input can send low complexity signals to motor systems in order to evoke elaborate movements (Flash & Hochner, 2005; Bizzi et al., 2008; Grillner et al., 2005).”