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How does our brain learn new dance moves?
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KRIS: Hey, Laureline, teach me something.
LAURELINE LOGIACO: Do you know how the brain generates movement?
KRIS: No.
LAURELINE LOGIACO: So, in the brain, there are specific regions with nerve cells-- neurons-- that quasi-directly project towards the muscles. And when you need to learn a new movement such as a new dance move, these nerve cells that are organized into networks, need to adjust the connection between them such that this network produces the right motor commands that send to the muscle.
And when you want to assemble different dance moves into a sequence, different parts of the brain tell this network what dance moves to do now and which order to organize dance moves into.
Laureline Logiaco, Research Scientist, MIT Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Want to learn more?
- Thalamic control of cortical dynamics in a model of flexible motor sequencing [Cell reports]
- Laureline Logiaco, PhD - Modeling Movement in the Brain [Youtube]
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