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Does controlling movement require intelligence?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1997

Mark L. Latash
Affiliation:
Department of Kinesiology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
J. Greg Anson
Affiliation:
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Abstract

Motor control schemes should have an element of control and an element of coordination. The former is a source of initiative and a zroduct of the brain's work (mind, intelligence, or “homunculus”) while the latter can be viewed as a process with constraints emerging at a hierarchically lower, autonomous level. Limiting scientific analysis to an object smaller than the universe necessarily leads to a hierarchical (cybernetic) approach.

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© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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