Motor Control 3 Flashcards

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What are some of the clinical relevance of understanding brain control of movement?

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Brain-machine interfaces and brain-brain interfaces are being developed

Sensory properties are being built into prosthetic limbs so patients can get sensory feedback when their prosthetic limb contacts objects or people

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What are brain-machine interfaces used to allow?

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Patients to voluntarily control prosthetic limbs and to walk again following spinal cord injuries

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What are brain-brain interfaces?

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Interfaces that use brain signals from one animal to teach another animal a task it has never seen

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