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Null Ain't Dull: New Perspectives on Motor Cortex
Ta-Chu Kao1, Guillaume Hennequin1
1Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
|October 18, 2018
Abstract:
Classical work has viewed primary motor cortex (M1) as a controller of muscle and body dynamics. A recent brain-computer interface (BCI) experiment suggests a new, complementary perspective: M1 is itself a dynamical system under active control of other circuits.