User talk:PoutineNation

December 2008
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Motor coordination
Hi, I'm trying to understand what's going on with that article -- which paper is the review paper you were referring to in your edit summary?

It may or may not be useful to you to know that the expansion of the article was done by a student in an introductory neuroscience class, as part of a class assignment. (I'm not involved, I just know this as a result of my own investigation.) If there is something here that is worth keeping, perhaps with a more specific article name, it might be worth thinking about. Regards, Looie496 (talk) 02:13, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

PoutineNation, please correct instead of deleting.
As far as I can tell, there was nothing erroneous or misleading in the Motor Coordination page edits by Steven Hand. If you disagree, please correct the errors, and comment in the TALK section. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Professorpotter (talk • contribs) 18:29, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

The entry is largely based on the review article by S.Scott "Optimal feedback control and the neural basis of volitional motor control". Nature Reviews Neuroscience 5: 534–546. Note that I have a fair amount of expertise on this topic as I have been a researcher in that very lab. In brief, the entry effectively (though unintentionally) pigeon-holes motor coordination as upper limb control per se, gives inordinate/inappropriate attention to a commerical product (KINARM), and overly emphasizes optimum feedback control. I thought the best course was to revert to an earlier version that did not suffer these glaring problems. It should also be noted that Box 1 is a direct copy from Fig 1 of the review paper and was likely used without permission from the journal. PoutineNation (talk) 19:50, 22 December 2008 (UTC)