Motor cortex reflexes associated with learned movement.
In primates, sensory input can generate reflex motor cortex output in association with learned movement when the sensory input has a strong and direct connection to the motor cortex-for example, when a stimulus calling for repositioning of the hand consists of a perturbation of hand position. This finding supports the proposal that neurons of primate motor cortex may function in a transcortical servo-loop.
D000200:Action Potentials; D000818:Animals; D003216:Conditioning, Operant; D004576:Electromyography; D006225:Hand / Q000294:innervation / Q000502:physiology; D000882:Haplorhini; D008251:Macaca; D009044:Motor Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D009068:Movement; D009119:Muscle Contraction; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D009475:Neurons, Afferent / Q000502:physiology; D011930:Reaction Time; D012018:Reflex; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D012201:Reward; D013003:Somatosensory Cortex / Q000502:physiology