KNES 385 Lecture 27: Early Motor program theory
3 Dec 2016
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Early motor program theory: the subsystems through which the nervous system (central and peripheral) controls and coordinates the musculoskeletal system. Functional perspective: the structures and processes through which we control body movements (i. e. , integration and regulation) theoretically based. Open loop control theory, keele 1968: motor programs, movement control center motor command movement effectors. Motor program conceptualized as a critical component of an open loop control system. A motor program is a pre-structured set of motor commands selected by the. Cns and sent to the peripheral nervous system in order to execute some desired movement: pre-structured, implies commands are formed ahead of time and stored somewhere in the cns. Commands can be recalled in the storage site and sent to the periphery. Depends on storage and long term memory. The concept of a motor program is couched in information processing and the computer analogy. Top down control (motor cortex: descending motor programs.
