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A Robust Role for Motor Cortex
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The function of mammalian motor cortex has remained a persistent
mystery. There is a long history of research linking activity in this part of
the brain with the control of voluntary movements but surprisingly there
is an equally large body of evidence in non-human animals describing all
kinds of complex behaviours that are not impaired when motor cortex is
fully removed. What is the reason behind this discrepancy? What kind of
movements are actually controlled by motor cortex? This thesis attempts
to reconcile the many con icting views on the cortical control of movement
and outline a strategy for investigating the teleology of this brain region.
We start out by introducing a new set of hardware and software tools
for neuroscience that aim to make it easier to study in detail more naturalistic
motor behaviours in rodents. These tools allow the experimenter
to quickly recon gure the physical and virtual environment of a behaviour
task while simultaneously tracking in real-time ne-scale measurements of
motor performance. (...)
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Motor Cortex