PMID-14610628[0] A critical evaluation of the force control hypothesis in motor control.
- the target of this review is the inverse dynamics model of motor control, which is very successful in robots. however, it seems that the mammalian nervous system does things a bit more complicated than this.
- they agree that motor learning is most likely the defining feature of the cortex (i think that the critical and essential element of the cortex is not what control solution it arrives at, but rather how it learns that solution given the anatomical connections development has endowed it with.
- they also find issue with the failure to incorporate realistic spinal reflexes into inverse-dynamics models.
- However, we find little empirical evidence that specifically supports the inverse dynamics or forward internal model proposals per se.
- We further conclude that the central idea of the force control hypothesis--that control levels operate through the central specification of forces--is flawed.
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