Episode 91 -- Simon Giszter, PhD
Thursday, November 15, 2012
\nSimon Giszter (Drexel School of Medicine) discusses spinal cord modularity based on the idea of motor primitives as optimization learning constraints that can be flexibly modulated by cortical inputs. He discusses ideas about the origins of motor primitives (are they built by evolution at the level of the species or online at the level of the task for individuals), and describes possible neural mechanisms for how spinal primitives may be orchestrated.
\nDuration: 34 minutes
\nDiscussants:(in alphabetical order)
\nSalma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)
\nTodd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)
\nCharles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)
\nacknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.