However, difficulties in acquiring data from peripheral (e.g. information from muscle) during fMRI studies of motor function hinder interpretation of fMRI data and designing more sophisticated investigations.
An energetic interpretation of motor processivity is discussed in quantitative form by using experimental data.
Somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEPs) monitor global spinal cord function, and the interpretation of motor loss is based on inferred rather than direct measurements.
If the role of the motor system in action interpretation were one of predicting action unfolding (post goal identification), the ease with which the goal can be ascribed would be crucial to the subsequent involvement of the motor system in prediction.
This is similar to the situation in the interpretation of motor cortex activity, where it has been shown that intrinsic and extrinsic and kinematic and kinetic variables are highly correlated during a commonly used experimental reaching task (Chan and Moran 2006).
In this brief essay we make a case that a new focus on the intersection of cortical and spinal circuits may provide clarity to the interpretation of corticospinal motor neuron firing patterns and help specify the logic of corticospinal motor neuronal function.
The Dean-Woodcock Sensory-Motor Battery (DWSMB) was designed to standardize the administration and interpretation of sensory-motor functions and has demonstrated satisfactory reliability.
The agranular architecture of motor cortex lacks a functional interpretation.
The pessimistic interpretation sees the motor theory as revealing a problem with our usual experimental paradigms.
The optimistic interpretation sees the motor theory as providing a successful account of the processing underpinning some of attention's simpler but more central varieties.
