Topics addressed in the lecture:

•Neural Information flow for movement generation

•Cortical areas related to action

•Movement representations in the primary motor and parietal cortex

•Instructed delay task for neural testing

 

Examples for question you should be able to answer:

•Describe the efferent and afferent information flow for planning and executing a reach-out and grasp movement?

•How are neurons in primary motor cortex tuned in a center-out reaching task? How does decoding with the population vector method work?

•Describe an experiment to determine the coordinate frame in which reach movements are represented in the parietal cortex.

 

Important concepts:

•Sensorimotor transformation

•Coordinate frames and coordinate transformations

•Neural tuning specific for action type and movement direction

•Gain modulation of tuned neural activity