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Ferdinando A. Mussa-Ivaldi
Researcher at Northwestern University
Publications - 204
Citations - 15644
Ferdinando A. Mussa-Ivaldi is an academic researcher from Northwestern University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Motor control & Motor learning. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 199 publications receiving 14720 citations. Previous affiliations of Ferdinando A. Mussa-Ivaldi include Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
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Adaptive representation of dynamics during learning of a motor task
TL;DR: The investigation of how the CNS learns to control movements in different dynamical conditions, and how this learned behavior is represented, suggests that the elements of the adaptive process represent dynamics of a motor task in terms of the intrinsic coordinate system of the sensors and actuators.
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Neural, mechanical, and geometric factors subserving arm posture in humans
TL;DR: A new experimental method to measure and represent the field of elastic forces associated with posture of the hand in the horizontal plane found that the shape and orientation of the stiffness were invariant over subjects and over time.
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Computations underlying the execution of movement: a biological perspective
TL;DR: Some of the mechanisms and circuitry underlying the transformation of motor plans into motor commands are described and a central feature of this transformation is a coarse map of limb postures in the premotor areas of the spinal cord.
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Convergent force fields organized in the frog's spinal cord
TL;DR: It was concluded that fixed-pattern force fields elicited in the spinal cord may be viewed as movement primitives that could form building blocks for more complex behaviors.
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Does the nervous system use equilibrium-point control to guide single and multiple joint movements?
TL;DR: The hypothesis that the central nervous system generates movement as a shift of the limb's equilibrium posture has been corroborated experimentally in studies involving single- and multijoint motions and can now be investigated in the neurophysiological machinery of the spinal cord.