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Anthropomorphizing the CNS: Is it what or who you know?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Michael G. Wade
Affiliation:
School of Kinesiology and Leisure Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455. mwade@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Jinhua Guan
Affiliation:
School of Kinesiology and Leisure Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455. mwade@maroon.tc.umn.edu

Abstract

The target article pays insufficient attention to (1) the difficulties that arise when the term “normal” is used to describe motor skill behavior, and (2) the need to resist ascribing motor control to an intelligent central nervous system. A complex systems perspective is proposed with attractor states and periodicity identified as markers of atypical coordination and control.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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