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Mirror helps beat paralysis

Ken Collins KPaulC at email.msn.com
Fri Jul 30 08:55:54 EST 1999


Ken Collins wrote in message <#TZwPln2#GA.276 at cpmsnbbsa05>...

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>when H. M. showed signs of having 'learned', it was the TD E/I-minimization
>attributable to the remaining supersystem configuration mechanisms that
>resulted in the neural activation 'state' convergence underpinning the
>by-produced the behaviroal manifestations of 'learning'.
>
>the main contributions to this TD E/I-minimization are from the cerebellum,
>which 'just' strips away any extraneous TD E/I that it can, and the
>prefrontal cortex mechanism of volition (AoK, Ap7), which is a long-term,
>inherently-'quiet', 'plodding' TD E/I-minimization mechanism.

whoops! left out the important contributions of the basal ganglia-substantia
nigra. (see AoK, Ap5)

K. P. Collins

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