Search research articles

ABOUT JoVE

Overview Leadership Blog JoVE Help Center

AUTHORS

Publishing Process Editorial Board Scope & Policies Peer Review FAQ Submit

LIBRARIANS

Testimonials Subscriptions Access Resources Library Advisory Board FAQ

RESEARCH

JoVE Journal Methods Collections JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments Archive

EDUCATION

JoVE Core JoVE Business JoVE Science Education JoVE Lab Manual Faculty Resource Center Faculty Site

Terms & Conditions of Use

Related Concept Videos

Hierarchy of Motor Control

Hierarchy of Motor Control

The hierarchy of motor control refers to the different levels of organization and processing involved in controlling movement in the body. These levels range from higher cortical areas involved in planning and decision-making to lower spinal cord reflexes that respond automatically to external stimuli.

Major Somatic Sensory Pathways

Major Somatic Sensory Pathways

Sensory impulses related to touch, pressure, vibration, and proprioception from various body parts, such as the limbs, trunk, neck, and posterior head, travel to the cerebral cortex through the posterior column-medial lemniscus pathway. The pathway’s name derives from the two white-matter tracts that convey the impulses: the spinal cord's posterior column and the brainstem's medial lemniscus. First-order sensory neurons extend their axons into the spinal cord, forming the...

Sensory Perception: Organization of the Somatosensory System

Sensory Perception: Organization of the Somatosensory System

The somatosensory system is the central and peripheral nervous system component that senses and processes touch, pressure, pain, temperature, and body position or proprioception. The process of sensation takes place at three levels:
The receptor level:
The receptor level is the first stage of sensation. It involves the detection of a stimulus by specialized sensory receptors. The stimulus must arrive within the receptor's receptive field. Next, the receptor converts the energy of the...

Introduction to Special Senses

Introduction to Special Senses

Sensory receptors play an integral part in comprehending our external and internal environments. They receive diverse stimuli, converting them into the nervous system's electrochemical signals. This conversion occurs as the stimulus alters the sensory neuron's cell membrane potential, instigating the generation of an action potential. This action potential is subsequently transmitted to the central nervous system (CNS), which integrates with other sensory data or higher cognitive...

Sensory Modalities

Sensory Modalities

Sensation typically is the process by which the sensory receptors and sense organs detect stimuli from the internal and external environment and transmit this information to the central nervous system for processing.
General senses refer to the broad category of sensory information detected by receptors in the body and can be further grouped into somatic and visceral senses. Somatic sensations include touch, pressure, temperature, and pain and are essential for navigating our environment and...

Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition marked by persistent deficits in social communication and interaction alongside restrictive and repetitive behaviors or interests. ASD is sometimes accompanied by intellectual impairment.
These core symptoms manifest differently among individuals, ranging from mild to severe. The disorder's complexity extends beyond its clinical presentation, encompassing a diverse range of biological, cognitive, and sociocultural influences.

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by

Same author

Widespread use of invalid statistical tests in biomedical machine learning.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology·2026

Same author

A Bayesian approach to temporal surgical segmentation model fusion.

International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery·2026

Same author

Humans can learn bimodal priors in complex sensorimotor behaviour.

Proceedings. Biological sciences·2026

Same author

Characterizing advanced stapling technique using objective performance indicators in robotic-assisted sleeve gastrectomy: a retrospective cohort study.

Surgical endoscopy·2025

Same author

Computational kinematics of dance: distinguishing hip hop genres.

Frontiers in robotics and AI·2024

Same author

Neural signatures of natural behaviour in socializing macaques.

Nature·2024

Search research articles

Related Experiment Video

Updated: Apr 5, 2026

Methods to Explore the Influence of Top-down Visual Processes on Motor Behavior

Methods to Explore the Influence of Top-down Visual Processes on Motor Behavior

Published on: April 16, 2014

Bayesian approaches to sensory integration for motor control.

Max Berniker¹, Konrad Kording¹

¹Northwestern University, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Cognitive Science

|August 25, 2015

Summary

The nervous system integrates uncertain sensory information for motor control. Bayesian estimation models how the brain combines noisy sensor data to understand the body and environment.

More Related Videos

WheelCon: A Wheel Control-Based Gaming Platform for Studying Human Sensorimotor Control

WheelCon: A Wheel Control-Based Gaming Platform for Studying Human Sensorimotor Control

Published on: August 15, 2020

Assessing Corticospinal Excitability During Goal-Directed Reaching Behavior

Assessing Corticospinal Excitability During Goal-Directed Reaching Behavior

Published on: December 2, 2022

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: Apr 5, 2026

Methods to Explore the Influence of Top-down Visual Processes on Motor Behavior

Methods to Explore the Influence of Top-down Visual Processes on Motor Behavior

Published on: April 16, 2014

WheelCon: A Wheel Control-Based Gaming Platform for Studying Human Sensorimotor Control

WheelCon: A Wheel Control-Based Gaming Platform for Studying Human Sensorimotor Control

Published on: August 15, 2020

Assessing Corticospinal Excitability During Goal-Directed Reaching Behavior

Assessing Corticospinal Excitability During Goal-Directed Reaching Behavior

Published on: December 2, 2022

Area of Science:

Cognitive Science
Neuroscience
Computational Neuroscience

Background:

Sensory information processing is crucial for nervous system function and understanding the environment.
Accurate perception is essential for effective motor control.
Sensory data is inherently uncertain due to noisy biological sensors.

Purpose of the Study:

To explore how the nervous system integrates uncertain sensory information.
To formalize the problem of integrating noisy sensory inputs using Bayesian approaches.
To investigate the predictive power of Bayesian methods for human sensorimotor behavior.

Main Methods:

Utilizing Bayesian approaches to formalize estimation problems.
Modeling the integration of multiple uncertain sensory pieces of information.
Comparing model predictions with human sensorimotor behavior.

Main Results:

Bayesian estimation provides a framework for integrating uncertain sensory data.
This approach successfully predicts human sensorimotor control.
The nervous system effectively handles noisy sensory inputs.

Conclusions:

Bayesian methods offer a powerful framework for understanding sensory integration.
The brain's ability to manage uncertainty is key to motor control.
This research highlights the role of probabilistic inference in cognition.