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SUBMITTER: Marasco PD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5906050 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Marasco Paul D PD Hebert Jacqueline S JS Sensinger Jon W JW Shell Courtney E CE Schofield Jonathon S JS Thumser Zachary C ZC Nataraj Raviraj R Beckler Dylan T DT Dawson Michael R MR Blustein Dan H DH Gill Satinder S Mensh Brett D BD Granja-Vazquez Rafael R Newcomb Madeline D MD Carey Jason P JP Orzell Beth M BM
Science translational medicine 20180301 432
To effortlessly complete an intentional movement, the brain needs feedback from the body regarding the movement's progress. This largely nonconscious kinesthetic sense helps the brain to learn relationships between motor commands and outcomes to correct movement errors. Prosthetic systems for restoring function have predominantly focused on controlling motorized joint movement. Without the kinesthetic sense, however, these devices do not become intuitively controllable. We report a method for en ...[more]