How to understand the mechanisms by which the nervous system controls our body? How does the nervous system exploit the anatomical properties of limbs?
The study of the neural control of limbs has historically emphasized the use of optimization to find solutions to the muscle redundancy problem. That is, “How does the nervous system select a specific muscle coordination pattern when the many muscle of a limb allow for multiple solutions?” This problem will be revisited from the perspective of Feasibility Theory that emphasizes finding and implementing families of feasible solutions, instead of a single and unique optimal solution. Those families of feasible solutions emerge naturally from the interactions among the feasible neural commands, anatomy of the limb, and constraints of the task. Such alternative perspective to the neural control of function is not only biologically plausible, but sheds light on the most central tenets and debates in the fields of neural control, robotics, rehabilitation, and brain-body co-evolutionary adaptations.
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