Brain-information Processing for Quick and Stable Human Movements--Stretch-reflex Regulation Based on Visually Updated Body Representation
Sho Ito, Hiroaki Gomi · NTT technical review · 2020
From the extraordinary performances of athletes to our most common everyday actions, human body movements are heavily governed by unconscious and automatic information processing of sensorymotor flow, some of which is known as a reflex.Our resent research has demonstrated that the brain flexibly regulates stretch reflexes, using body information shaped by integrating multiple sensory cues, including vision.This finding suggests that there is sophisticated brain processing underlying reflex control, in contrast to the classical view of reflexes as simple and primitive.