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Spatiotemporal Maps of Proprioceptive Inputs to the Cervical Spinal Cord During Three-Dimensional Reaching and Grasping

Kibleur, Pierre
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Tata, Shravan R.  
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Greiner, Nathan  
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July 1, 2020
Ieee Transactions On Neural Systems And Rehabilitation Engineering

Proprioceptive feedback is a critical component of voluntary movement planning and execution. Neuroprosthetic technologies aiming at restoring movement must interact with it to restore accurate motor control. Optimization and design of such technologies depends on the availability of quantitative insights into the neural dynamics of proprioceptive afferents during functional movements. However, recording proprioceptive neural activity during unconstrained movements in clinically relevant animal models presents formidable challenges. In this work, we developed a computational framework to estimate the spatiotemporal patterns of proprioceptive inputs to the cervical spinal cord during three-dimensional arm movements in monkeys. We extended a biomechanical model of the monkey arm with ex-vivo measurements, and combined it with models of mammalian group-Ia, Ib and II afferent fibers. We then used experimental recordings of arm kinematics and muscle activity of two monkeys performing a reaching and grasping task to estimate muscle stretches and forces with computational biomechanics. Finally, we projected the simulated proprioceptive firing rates onto the cervical spinal roots, thus obtaining spatiotemporal maps of spinal proprioceptive inputs during voluntary movements. Estimated maps show complex and markedly distinct patterns of neural activity for each of the fiber populations spanning the spinal cord rostro-caudally. Our results indicate that reproducing the proprioceptive information flow to the cervical spinal cord requires complex spatio-temporal modulation of each spinal root. Our model can support the design of neuroprosthetic technologies as well as in-silico investigations of the primate sensorimotor system.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/TNSRE.2020.2986491
Web of Science ID

WOS:000546879800019

Author(s)
Kibleur, Pierre
Tata, Shravan R.  
Greiner, Nathan  
Conti, Sara
Barra, Beatrice
Zhuang, Katie
Kaeser, Melanie
Ijspeert, Auke  
Capogrosso, Marco
Date Issued

2020-07-01

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC

Published in
Ieee Transactions On Neural Systems And Rehabilitation Engineering
Volume

28

Issue

7

Start page

1668

End page

1677

Subjects

Engineering, Biomedical

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Rehabilitation

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Engineering

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optical fiber sensors

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muscles

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biological system modeling

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firing

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computational modeling

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biomechanics

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kinematics

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proprioceptive feedback

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biomechanical model

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upper limb movement

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non-human primates

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motor control

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neuroprosthetics

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macaca-mulatta forelimb

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epidural electrical-stimulation

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computational model

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normal locomotion

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muscle afferents

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morphometry

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shoulder

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gait

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restoration

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motoneurons

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REVIEWED

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