Motor learning encompasses a wide range of phenomena, ranging from relatively low-level
mechanisms for maintaining calibration of our movements, to making high-level cognitive …

Humans are adept at performing an extraordinary breadth of voluntary motor actions that
allow us to rapidly move around and interact with the environment. While voluntary motor …

Optimal feedback control (OFC) provides a powerful tool to interpret voluntary motor control,
highlighting the importance of sensory feedback in the control and planning of movement …

This review is part of the series on the clinical neurophysiology of movement disorders. It
focuses on Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism. The topics covered include the …

We investigated the contributions of the cerebellum and the motor cortex (M1) to acquisition
and retention of human motor memories in a force field reaching task. We found that anodal …

Primary motor cortex has been studied for more than a century, yet a consensus on its
functional contribution to movement control is still out of reach. In particular, there remains …

Highlights•Advanced control theory highlights the role of sensory feedback for motor
function.•Goal-directed feedback begins in muscle activity∼ 60 ms after the limb is …

Closed-loop models of movement control have attracted growing interest in how the nervous
system transforms sensory information into motor commands, and several brain structures …

Recent theoretical frameworks such as optimal feedback control suggest that feedback
gains should modulate throughout a movement and be tuned to task demands. Here we …

Recent work has shown that, when countering external forces, the nervous system adjusts
not only predictive (ie, feedforward) control of reaching but also reflex (ie, feedback) …