Conditional visuo-motor learning in primates: a key role for the basal ganglia

Journal of Physiology, Paris
F Hadj-BouzianeDriss Boussaoud

Abstract

Sensory guidance of behavior often involves standard visuo-motor mapping of body movements onto objects and spatial locations. For example, looking at and reaching to grasp a glass of wine requires the mapping of the eyes and hand to the location of the glass in space, as well as the formation of a hand configuration appropriate to the shape of the glass. But our brain is far more than just a standard sensorimotor mapping machine. Through evolution, the brain of advanced mammals, in particular human and non-human primates, has acquired a formidable capacity to construct non-standard, arbitrary mapping using associations between external events and behavioral responses that bear no direct relationship. For example, we have all learned to stop at a red traffic light and to go at a green one, or to wait for a specific tone before dialing a phone number and to hang up when hearing a busy signal. These arbitrary associations are acquired through experience, thereby providing primates with a rich and flexible sensorimotor repertoire. Understanding how they are learned, and how they are recalled and used when the context requires them, has been one of the challenging issues for cognitive neuroscience. Valuable insights have been gaine...Continue Reading

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