Action Flashcards
What is action
Change in the environment
3 types of actions
Somatic:
Autonomic
Actions internal to the CNS
Example of somatic action
Skeletal muscles: move limbs
Example of autonomic action
Smooth muscles: change blood pressure, digest food
Cardiac muscles: heartbeat
Endocrine glands: secrete hormones
Exocrine glands: secrete sweat, saliva, etc..
Actions internal to the CNS
Update memory, switch tasks, etc…
Update path you take to school → update your address in your memory → action in brain
Problem solved by action
How to effect change in the world
Importance of action
Necessary to achieve goals (eat, drink, reproduce, survive, etc…)
Challenge of action
The inverse problem: determining what actions to take in order to achieve goals
Working from the goal backwards
We are hungry (goal) → have to figure out what actions to take to get there
Where is supplementary motor cortex located relative to primary motor cortex and premotor cortex
rostral to primary motor cortex and dorsal to premotor cortex
Motor system hierarchy
Start off with a high level goal and work your way down to which specific muscles to activate → opposite from perception
What does the motor equivalence writing task show
pattern/form of strokes were mostly the same between conditions
Using the same upper levels of hierarchy and replacing the lower ones
Inverse model of motor control explained
Current position & desired position → motor commands
Start with goals then determine what to do to end up there
Used to create a motor plans
Do we usually do the inverse model or the forward model first
Use the inverse to formulate plan then use the forward model to evaluate it
Forward models of motor control explained
Current position & motor commands → predicted position
Given where my hand is now and the muscle movements I’m going to take → where is my hand going to end up
Used to evaluate motor plans and/or actions
Know what the results should be and compare that to what actually happened
Explain how the inverse and forward model connect and provide the steps
Start with a desired behaviour and use the inverse model to get a motor command
A copy of that motor command gets send to a forward model which takes motor command and current state to predict what will happen
Can compare what actual happened to what we predicted
What is an efferent copy
internal copy of a motor command
What is feedforward control and an example
Motor command sent to muscle
Faster, but less accurate
Uses inverse model
Have a desired state and come up with a motor common send it to the muscles and hope that it works
Removing hand from hot pot or throwing a ball
What is feedback control and an example
Motor command sent to muscle
Actual state compared to desired state
Adjustments made based on errors
Catching a ball
Picking up a coffee cup
Slower, but more accurate
Uses inverse and forward model
Does the feedback control have feedforward within it
Yes
Compares what happens to what we wanted to happen
Does feedforward control use inverse or forward model
Inverse
Does feedback control use inverse or forward model
Both
What is the function of the premotor cortex
Involved in selecting goals and planning actions at a conceptual level
- want to quench thirst so we need to drink from a cup
involved in motor planning
Particularly when plans are driven by external stimuli → picking up a cup to quench thirst
What area is involved in the highest level of motor planning
premotor cortex
What is motor planning
Planning of voluntary actions begins at a conceptual level based on goals