Emergence of tri-phasic muscle activation from the nonlinear interactions of central and spinal neural network circuits

Author(s): Bullock, D. | Grossberg, S. |

Year: 1992

Citation: Human Movement Science, 11, 157-167

Abstract: The origin of the tri-phasic burst pattern, observed in the EMGs of opponent muscles during rapid self-terminated movements, has benn controversial. Here we show by computer simulation that the pattern emerges from interactions between a central neural trajectory controller (VITE circuit). Both neural models have been derived from simple functional constraints that have led to principled explanations of a wide variety of behavioral and neurobiological data, including, as shown here, the generation of tri-phasic bursts.

Topics: Biological Learning, Models: Other,

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