Motor control
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Motor control is the process by which humans and animals use their brain/cognition to activate and coordinate the muscles and limbs involved in the performance of a motor skill. Fundamentally, it is the integration of sensory information, both about the world and the current state of the body, to determine the appropriate set of muscle forces and joint activations to generate some desired movement or action. This process requires cooperative interaction between the central nervous system and the musculoskeletal system, and is thus a problem of information processing, coordination, mechanics, physics, and cognition.
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See also
- Motor learning
- Motor skill
- Motor coordination
- Motor cortex
- Multisensory integration
- Proprioception
- Sensory processing
- Two-alternative forced choice
- Psychomotor learning
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