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ref: Lehericy-2005.08
tags: fMRI motor_learning basal_ganglia STN subthalamic
date: 01-25-2012 00:20 gmt
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PMID-16107540[0] Distinct basal ganglia territories are engaged in early and advanced motor sequence learning
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PMID-16271465[] The basal ganglia: Learning new tricks and loving it
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ref: Francis-2005.11
tags: Joe_Francis motor_learning reaching humans delay intertrial interval
date: 04-09-2007 22:48 gmt
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PMID-16132970[0] The Influence of the Inter-Reach-Interval on Motor Learning. Previous studies have demonstrated changes in motor memories with the passage of time on the order of hours. We sought to further this work by determining the influence that time on the order of seconds has on motor learning by changing the duration between successive reaches (inter-reach-interval IRI). Human subjects made reaching movements to visual targets while holding onto a robotic manipulandum that presented a viscous curl field. We tested four experimental groups that differed with respect to the IRI (0.5, 5, 10 or 20 sec). The 0.5 sec IRI group performed significantly worse with respect to a learning index than the other groups over the first set of 192 reaches. Each group demonstrated significant learning during the first set. There was no significant difference with respect to the learning index between the 5, 10 or 20 sec IRI groups. During the second and third set of 192 reaches the 0.5 sec IRI group's performance became indistinguishable from the other groups indicating that fatigue did not cause the initial poor performance and that with continued training the initial deficit in performance could be overcome. ____References____ | |||
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ref: Brown-2001.11
tags: Huntingtons motor_learning intentional implicit cognitive deficits
date: 0-0-2007 0:0
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ref: abstract-0
tags: tlh24 error signals in the cortex and basal ganglia reinforcement_learning gradient_descent motor_learning
date: 0-0-2006 0:0
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Title: Error signals in the cortex and basal ganglia. Abstract: Numerous studies have found correlations between measures of neural activity, from single unit recordings to aggregate measures such as EEG, to motor behavior. Two general themes have emerged from this research: neurons are generally broadly tuned and are often arrayed in spatial maps. It is hypothesized that these are two features of a larger hierarchal structure of spatial and temporal transforms that allow mappings to procure complex behaviors from abstract goals, or similarly, complex sensory information to produce simple percepts. Much theoretical work has proved the suitability of this organization to both generate behavior and extract relevant information from the world. It is generally agreed that most transforms enacted by the cortex and basal ganglia are learned rather than genetically encoded. Therefore, it is the characterization of the learning process that describes the computational nature of the brain; the descriptions of the basis functions themselves are more descriptive of the brain’s environment. Here we hypothesize that learning in the mammalian brain is a stochastic maximization of reward and transform predictability, and a minimization of transform complexity and latency. It is probable that the optimizations employed in learning include both components of gradient descent and competitive elimination, which are two large classes of algorithms explored extensively in the field of machine learning. The former method requires the existence of a vectoral error signal, while the latter is less restrictive, and requires at least a scalar evaluator. We will look for the existence of candidate error or evaluator signals in the cortex and basal ganglia during force-field learning where the motor error is task-relevant and explicitly provided to the subject. By simultaneously recording large populations of neurons from multiple brain areas we can probe the existence of error or evaluator signals by measuring the stochastic relationship and predictive ability of neural activity to the provided error signal. From this data we will also be able to track dependence of neural tuning trajectory on trial-by-trial success; if the cortex operates under minimization principles, then tuning change will have a temporal relationship to reward. The overarching goal of this research is to look for one aspect of motor learning – the error signal – with the hope of using this data to better understand the normal function of the cortex and basal ganglia, and how this normal function is related to the symptoms caused by disease and lesions of the brain. |