ganglia

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Oscillatory activity in the basal ganglia -- relationship to normal physiology and pathophysiology

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  • The animal is as bereft of nerve nets, ganglia, axons, neurons, dendrites, and glial cells as an oak. —  Asimov'sSF,March2008
  • Higher levels of activity in brain regions such as the basal ganglia, anterior cingulate cortex, prefrontal cortex, and parietal cortex corresponded to better multitasking performance. —  FuturePundit
  • Lobsters 'nervous systems operate off not one but several ganglia, a.k.a. nerve bundles, which are sort of wired in series and distributed all along the lobster's underside, from stem to stern. —  Flagrancy to Reason
  • Additionally, this may useful in the automated construction of mappings to be used in imitation for artificial, hardware or software systems. basal-ganglia biocontrol bioinspired-control book cerebellar computer-vision developmental-robotics dexterous-manipulation friction-estimation genetic-algorithm grasp-control grasp-review haptic hierarchical humanoid-robotics internal-model learning-by-demo machine-learning markove-model markov-model mental-state mirror-neuron motor-primitives neuro-model optimal-control optimization quality-measure redundancy reinforcement-learning review robot-hardware robot-perception saccades slip-detection somatosensory stability tactile-sensor thesis time-series unstructured visual-attention visual-perception working-memory CiteULike organises scholarly —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Several models have suggested that information transmission in the basal ganglia (BG) involves gating mechanisms, where neuronal activity modulates the extent of gate aperture and its duration. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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