Basal ganglia--possible role in motor coordination and learning.
The basal ganglia, with their inhibitory efferents, control motor outputs either directly by their projections to the midbrain motor regions or indirectly through the thalamic nuclei. Neural mechanisms in the basal ganglia act selectively to remove or enhance the inhibition so that different combinations of motor signals, which may act as neural templates for motor learning, are formed.
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Laboratory of Neural Control, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Aichi, Japan.
D000818:Animals; D001479:Basal Ganglia / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D008124:Locomotion / Q000502:physiology*