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- From: Avery Andrews <andaling@FAC.ANU.EDU.AU>
- Subject: bizzi et. al.
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- Has anyone tried to publish a refutation of the major conclusion of
- Bizzi et al. 1976, `mechanisms underlying acheivement of final head
- position', J. Neurophysiol 39:435-444?
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- They claim, if I read them aright, to have shown that kinesthetic
- feedback is not involved in attaining the final head position when
- monkeys move their heads to orient towards flashing lights, but the
- behavior they report looks perfectly consistent with what you would
- get with a fairly low gain kinesthetic control system, & straight
- kinesthetic control would presumably be a lot simpler than what they
- suggest, which is that kinesthesis is invoved in constraining that
- path, but not its endpoint.
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- It also looks like a good subject for a modelling exercise, presumably
- simple if you consider just rotation around the neck, or elevation
- at the neck.
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- Avery.Anddrews@anu.edu.au
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