Tentative Reading List–Neural Control of Movement–Zoology 4863/5863–Fall 2008

 

1: Are movements of individual body parts controlled by distinct regions of the brain?

 

   “Investigations of the properties and functions of the various parts which compose the cerebral mass,” by Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens (1824)

 

* “Remarks on the seat of the faculty of articulate language, followed by an observation of aphemia,” by Paul Broca (1861)

 

* “A study of convulsions,” by John Hughlings Jackson (1870)

 

* “On the electrical excitability of the cerebrum,” by Gustav Fritsch and Eduard Hitzig (1870)

 

   “Basic neural mechanisms in behavior,” by Karl S. Lashley (1930)

 

* “Somatic motor and sensory representation in the cerebral cortex of man as studied by electrical stimulation,” by Wilder Penfield and Edwin Boldrey (1937)

 

* “How somatotopic is the motor cortex hand area?” by Marc H. Schieber and Lyndon S. Hibbard (1993)

 

* “Shared neural substrates controlling hand movements in human motor cortex,” by Jerome N. Sanes et al. (1995)

 

* “Complex movements evoked by microstimulation of precentral cortex,” by Michael S.A. Graziano et al. (2002)

 

 

2: What are the relative contributions of the central nervous system (CNS) and sensory feedback in the control of movements?

      Chain reflexes vs. central pattern generation 

 

* “Observations on the scratch-reflex in the spinal dog,” by Charles S. Sherrington (1906) [excerpt] and “Notes on the scratch-reflex on the cat,” by Charles S. Sherrington (1910)

 

* “The intrinsic factors in the act of progression in the mammal,” by T. Graham Brown (1911)

 

* “The central nervous control of flight in a locust,” by Donald M. Wilson (1961)

     Integration of corollary discharge/efference copy and reafference

 

* “Treatise on Physiological Optics,” by Herman Ludwig von Helmholtz (1866) [excerpt]

 

* “Neural basis of the spontaneous optokinetic response produced by visual inversion,” by Roger W. Sperry (1950)

 

* “The reafference principle,” by Erich von Holst and Horst Mittlestaedt (1950)

 

* “A pathway in primate brain for internal monitoring of movements,” by Marc A. Sommer and Robert H. Wurtz (2002)

 

* “Motor commands contribute to human position sense,” by Simon C. Gandevia et al. (2006)

 

3: To what extent are individual neurons responsible for the generation of a single type of movement or a single behavior?

 

* “The command neuron concept,” by Irving Kupfermann and Klaudiusz R. Weiss (1978)

 

* “Alternative neural pathways initiate fast-start responses following lesions of the Mauthner neuron in goldfish,” by Robert C. Eaton et al. (1982)

 

   “Size and distribution of movement fields in the monkey superior colliculus,” by David L. Sparks et al. (1976)

 

* “Population coding of saccadic eye movements by neurons in the superior colliculus,” by Choongkil Lee et al. (1988)

 

* “Neuronal population coding of movement direction,” by Apostolos P. Georgopoulos et al. (1986)

 

* “Single neuron control over a complex motor program,” by William N. Frost and Paul S. Katz (1996)

 

 

4: How do neuromodulatory chemicals modify the CNS generation of movements?

 

* “Switching of a neuron from one network to another by sensory-induced changes in membrane properties,” by Scott L. Hooper and Maurice Moulins (1989)

 

* “Neuropeptide fusion of two motor-pattern generator circuits,” by Patsy S. Dickinson et al. (1990)

 

* “Construction of a pattern-generating circuit with neurons of different networks,” by Pierre Meyrand et al. (1991)

 

* “Dynamic neuromodulation of synaptic strength intrinsic to a central pattern generator circuit,” by Paul S. Katz et al. (1994)

 

* “Substance P modulates NMDA responses and causes long-term protein synthesis-dependent modulation of the lamprey locomotor network,” by David Parker et al. (1998)

 

 

5: To what extent can an adult CNS reorganize its control of movements over the long-term (days or longer)?

 

* “Activity-dependent changes in the intrinsic properties of cultured neurons,” by Gina Turrigiano et al. (1994)

 

* “Adaptation of disarranged hand-eye coordination contingent upon re-afferent stimulation,” by Richard Held and Alan V. Hein (1958) and “Plasticity in sensory-motor systems,” by Richard Held (1965)

 

* “Use-dependent alterations of movement representations in primary motor cortex of adult squirrel monkeys,” by R. J. Nudo et al. (1996)

 

* “Functional MRI evidence for adult motor cortex plasticity during motor skill learning,” by Avi Karni et al. (1995)

 

* “Synaesthesia in phantom limbs induced with mirrors,” by V.S. Ramachandran and D. Rogers-Ramachandran (1996)

 

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* Students may choose any of these papers for leading class discussions.

 

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