The Initiation of Movements

Rolls, Edmund T.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-68915-4_8

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“…If the incoming information does not require extensive processing, it can travel to the frontal lobe via relatively short neural routes containing few processing stations; for more extensive processing, there are longer routes available (A. Brodal, 1981; Evarts, Shinoda, & Wise, 1984; Rolls, 1983; Snider, 1967).…”

Section: From Motor Dexterity To Mental Dexteritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Does the cerebellum contribute to mental skills?

Leiner¹,

Leiner²,

Dow³

1986

Behavioral Neuroscience

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Although it has been known for half a century that unique structures evolved in the cerebellum of anthropoid apes and became greatly enlarged in the human brain, the function of these structures still remains unknown. In an attempt to explain their function, a new concept of cerebellar capabilities is proposed, which is based both on neural evidence and on information-processing theory. The phylogenetically newest structures of the cerebellum may contribute to mental skills in much the same way that the phylogenetically older structures contribute to motor skills. In both cases, the cerebellum can send signals from the dentate nucleus to the cerebral frontal cortex via the thalamus. Signals from the older part of the dentate nucleus certainly help the frontal motor cortex to effect the skilled manipulation of muscles, and signals from the newest part of the dentate nucleus may help the frontal association cortex to effect the skilled manipulation of information or ideas. How such mental skills could have evolved in higher primates in the course of phylogenetic and ontogenetic development is shown. The validity of this new concept of cerebellar function can be tested on humans by means of tomographic brain scans.

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Section: From Motor Dexterity To Mental Dexteritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Does the cerebellum contribute to mental skills?

Leiner¹,

Leiner²,

Dow³

1986

Behavioral Neuroscience

637

358

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“…However, it could be shown neuropsychologically by examining patients with brain injuries that the selection of goals and the initiation of actions are distinguishable brain functions [ 29 ]. There were also animal experiments with single neuron recordings in the brain of monkeys [ 30 , 31 ] and new ideas came from cybernetics and artificial intelligence [ 32 , 33 ]. An international consensus conference of social researchers, psychiatrists, psychologists, lawyers and neurologists pointed at the urgency of research on will and volition with respect to the prevention of violence [ 34 ].…”

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There Are Conscious and Unconscious Agendas in the Brain and Both Are Important—Our Will Can Be Conscious as Well as Unconscious

Deecke

2012

Brain Sciences

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I have been asked to write a few words on consciousness in this editorial issue. My thoughts on consciousness will focus on the relation between consciousness and will. Consciousness is not an epiphenomenon as some people believe—it is not a psychological construct either. Consciousness is a brain function. With deeper thought it is even more than that—a brain state. Writing this, I am in a conscious state, I hope at least. In every day philosophy, a close connection of consciousness with will is ventured, and is expressed in the term “conscious free will”. However, this does not mean that our will is totally determined and not free, be it conscious or unconscious. Total determinists postulate total freedom from nature in order to speak of free will. Absolute freedom from nature is an a priori impossibility; there is no way to escape from nature. However, we have relative freedom, graded freedom, freedom in degrees, enabling us to make responsible decisions and be captains of our own destiny. We are not totally determined. We can upregulate our degrees of freedom by self-management or we can downregulate them by self-mismanagement. In the present communication consciousness and the unconscious are discussed in their various aspects and interactions.

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The Neostriatum Viewed Orthogonally

Divac

1984

Ciba Foundation Symposium 107 ‐ Functions of the Basal Ganglia

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The Initiation of Movements

Cited by 36 publications

References 44 publications

Does the cerebellum contribute to mental skills?

Does the cerebellum contribute to mental skills?

There Are Conscious and Unconscious Agendas in the Brain and Both Are Important—Our Will Can Be Conscious as Well as Unconscious

The Neostriatum Viewed Orthogonally

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