INTRODUCTION TO CORTICAL SENSORY-MOTOR INTEGRATION

Abstract

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the concept of cortical sensory–motor integration. The degree of adequacy of behavioral program is determined by the bias and level of emotions expressed during its realization. Positive results elicit positive emotions, which in their turn seem a decisive factor for storing a new behavioral act into ontogenetic (long-term) memory. Dominant motivation ensures selection of most significant factors from the surroundings and operates ready behavioral decisions, which being automatic, inevitably produce a pre-existing reflex. There are systems of fixed intrabrain connections, which can be thought responsible for such most usual modes of action. Adaptive behavior in ever-changing surroundings necessitates power of prediction subserved by certain plastic brain systems. A brain substrate can be viewed as an organizer of a programming function on the basis of the following general postulates.