Motor Control: Memory and Motor Control in the Dorsal Striatum

Alexxai V Kravitz; Bridget A Matikainen-Ankney

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.09.018

Motor Control: Memory and Motor Control in the Dorsal Striatum

Curr Biol. 2020 Nov 16;30(22):R1366-R1368. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.09.018.

Authors

Alexxai V Kravitz¹, Bridget A Matikainen-Ankney²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 425 S. Euclid Avenue, CSRB 5536, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA. Electronic address: alexxai@wustl.edu.
² Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 425 S. Euclid Avenue, CSRB 5536, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA. Electronic address: bridget.m@wustl.edu.

Abstract

The dorsal striatum is important for motor control. Yet whether that control encompasses procedural memories, kinematic refinement, or both is still debated. A recent study has shed new light on the role of the dorsal striatum in learned movement sequences and the effort required to refine them.

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MeSH terms

Corpus Striatum*
Learning
Memory*

Grants and funding

F32 DK126355/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States