Neural circuits underlying motor skill learning and execution - Bence Ölveczky

Bence Ölveczky

Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University 

Abstract

I will introduce a motor skill learning paradigm that trains stereotyped complex motor sequences in rodents. By recording and manipulating neural activity in the basal ganglia, motor cortex and thalamus, we delineate the logic by which these circuits work together to promote the acquisition and control of task-specific motor sequences.

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Related papers

[1] Otchy, T. M., Wolff, S. B., Rhee, J. Y., Pehlevan, C., Kawai, R., Kempf, A., . . . Ölveczky, B. P. (2015). Acute off-target effects of neural circuit manipulations. Nature, 528(7582), 358-363. doi:10.1038/nature16442

[2] Kawai, R., Markman, T., Poddar, R., Ko, R., Fantana, A., Dhawale, A., . . . Ölveczky, B. (2015). Motor Cortex Is Required for Learning but Not for Executing a Motor Skill. Neuron, 86(3), 800-812. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2015.03.024