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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2016

A spiking neural model of adaptive arm control.

Travis DeWolf, Terrence C Stewart, Jean-Jacques Slotine, Chris Eliasmith

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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Travis DeWolfCentre for Theoretical Neuroscience, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L3G1 tdewolf@uwaterloo.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-8780-5631
Terrence C StewartCentre for Theoretical Neuroscience, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L3G1.
Jean-Jacques SlotineMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Chris EliasmithCentre for Theoretical Neuroscience, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L3G1.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present a spiking neuron model of the motor cortices and cerebellum of the motor control system. The model consists of anatomically organized spiking neurons encompassing premotor, primary motor, and cerebellar cortices. The model proposes novel neural computations within these areas to control a nonlinear three-link arm model that can adapt to unknown changes in arm dynamics and kinematic structure. We demonstrate the mathematical stability of both forms of adaptation, suggesting that this is a robust approach for common biological problems of changing body size (e.g. during growth), and unexpected dynamic perturbations (e.g. when moving through different media, such as water or mud). To demonstrate the plausibility of the proposed neural mechanisms, we show that the model accounts for data across 19 studies of the motor control system. These data include a mix of behavioural and neural spiking activity, across subjects performing adaptive and static tasks. Given this proposed characterization of the biological processes involved in motor control of the arm, we provide several experimentally testable predictions that distinguish our model from previous work.

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Models, NeurologicalArmCerebellumHumansMotor CortexNeuronsNonlinear Dynamicscerebellumcomputational neurosciencelarge-scale spiking neuron modelsmotor controlmotor cortices

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PMID27903878
PMCPMC5136600

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