Vector field approximation: a computational paradigm for motor control and learning

1992 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 491-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdinando A. Mussa-Ivaldi ◽  
Simon F. Giszter
Author(s):  
Albertas Skurvydas

Modern paradigms of motor control and rehabilitation are analyzed in the paper. Two main paradigms, i. e. computational approach and dynamical system approach are engaged in rivalry in motor control and learning research at present. From the standpoint of computational paradigm the principal mechanism of motor control and learning consists in the ability of the brain “to calculate” (acting as some kind of biological computer). According to the paradigm of dynamical systems the mechanism of motor control is time dependent. In other words, it can be different each time. The main principles of motor control and properties of movements are given considerable attention in the paper. Besides, modern methods of motor rehabilitation after stroke are emphasized in the paper. Fitting of neuroprosthesis and restoration of damaged neural cells are significant maiden steps in modern science. The scientists are engaged in search for: a) constraining such mechanism prosthesis that would submit to the efforts of human will and b) restoring neural cells damaged because of the brain stroke suffered.Keywords: motor control, rehabilitation, stroke.


2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (05) ◽  
pp. 745-756 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANCISCO DIEGO MAZZITELLI

We discuss the renormalization procedure for quantum scalar fields with modified dispersion relations in curved spacetimes. We consider two different ways of introducing modified dispersion relations: through the interaction with a dynamical temporal vector field, as in the context of the Einstein–Aether theory, and breaking explicitly the covariance of the theory, as in Hǒrava–Lifshitz gravity. Working in the weak field approximation, we show that the general structure of the counterterms depends on the UV behavior of the dispersion relations and on the mechanism chosen to introduce them.


2013 ◽  
Vol 240 ◽  
pp. 163-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel A. Cervantes Cabrera ◽  
Pedro González-Casanova ◽  
Christian Gout ◽  
L. Héctor Juárez ◽  
L. Rafael Reséndiz

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (12) ◽  
pp. 1563-1578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Koch ◽  
Jens Kasten ◽  
Alexander Wiebel ◽  
Gerik Scheuermann ◽  
Mario Hlawitschka

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