Predictions not commands: active inference in the motor system

RA Adams, S Shipp, KJ Friston - Brain Structure and Function, 2013 - Springer
The descending projections from motor cortex share many features with top-down or
backward connections in visual cortex; for example, corticospinal projections originate in …

Consensus paper: roles of the cerebellum in motor control—the diversity of ideas on cerebellar involvement in movement

M Manto, JM Bower, AB Conforto, JM Delgado-García… - The Cerebellum, 2012 - Springer
Considerable progress has been made in developing models of cerebellar function in
sensorimotor control, as well as in identifying key problems that are the focus of current …

Corticospinal circuits from the sensory and motor cortices differentially regulate skilled movements through distinct spinal interneurons

M Ueno, Y Nakamura, J Li, Z Gu, J Niehaus… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Little is known about the organizational and functional connectivity of the corticospinal (CS)
circuits that are essential for voluntary movement. Here, we map the connectivity between …

The sensory side of post-stroke motor rehabilitation

N Bolognini, C Russo… - Restorative neurology and …, 2016 - content.iospress.com
Contemporary strategies to promote motor recovery following stroke focus on repetitive
voluntary movements. Although successful movement relies on efficient sensorimotor …

The computational and neural basis of voluntary motor control and planning

SH Scott - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2012 - cell.com
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 …

Motor circuits in action: specification, connectivity, and function

S Arber - Neuron, 2012 - cell.com
Mammalian motor behavior is enabled by a hierarchy of interleaved circuit modules
constructed by interneurons in the spinal cord, sensory feedback loops, and bilateral …

Making sense out of spinal cord somatosensory development

HC Lai, RP Seal, JE Johnson - Development, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
The spinal cord integrates and relays somatosensory input, leading to complex motor
responses. Research over the past couple of decades has identified transcription factor …

Presynaptic inhibition of spinal sensory feedback ensures smooth movement

AJP Fink, KR Croce, ZJ Huang, LF Abbott, TM Jessell… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
The precision of skilled movement depends on sensory feedback and its refinement by local
inhibitory microcircuits. One specialized set of spinal GABAergic interneurons forms axo …

Graded arrays of spinal and supraspinal V2a interneuron subtypes underlie forelimb and hindlimb motor control

M Hayashi, CA Hinckley, SP Driscoll, NJ Moore… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
The spinal cord contains neural networks that enable regionally distinct motor outputs along
the body axis. Nevertheless, it remains unclear how segment-specific motor computations …

Convergence of pontine and proprioceptive streams onto multimodal cerebellar granule cells

CC Huang, K Sugino, Y Shima, C Guo, S Bai… - Elife, 2013 - elifesciences.org
Cerebellar granule cells constitute the majority of neurons in the brain and are the primary
conveyors of sensory and motor-related mossy fiber information to Purkinje cells. The …