ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2015
Motor primitives--new data and future questions.
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105 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Action-type mapping principles extend beyond evolutionarily conserved actions, even in people born without hands.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
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- Phase-specific multimodal biomarkers enable explainable assessment of upper limb dysfunction in chronic stroke.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Study on the motor development and biomechanical characteristics of children aged 3-5 years.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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Abstract
Motor primitives allow integration across scales in the motor system and may link movement construction and circuit organization. This review examines support for primitives, and new data relating primitives to concrete circuit elements across species. Both kinematic motor primitives and muscle synergy/kinetic motor primitives are reviewed. Motor primitives allow a modular hierarchy that may be re-used by volitional systems in novel ways. They can provide a developmental bootstrap for ethologically important actions. Collections of primitives somewhat constrain motor acts, but at the same time sets of primitives facilitate the rapid construction of these constrained actions, and can allow use of simpler controls. Novel motor skill likely requires augmentation to transcend the constraints present in initial collections of low level motor primitives. The benefits and limitations of motor primitives and the recognized knowledge gaps and needs for future research are briefly discussed.
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