arXiv Open Access 2026

A sub-Riemannian model of the motor cortex with Wasserstein distance

Jawad Ali Giovanna Citti Alessandro Sarti
Lihat Sumber

Abstrak

This study aims to better understand the functional geometry of the motor cortex, starting from different sources of experimental evidence. Recent studies have proved that cells of the primary motor cortex (M1) are sensitive to short hand trajectories called fragments. Here, we propose a sub-Riemannian higher-dimensional geometry accounting for geometric and kinematic properties. Due to the constraints of the geometry, horizontal curves naturally satisfy a relation between geometric and kinematic properties experimentally observed. In the space of trajectories, we also apply a clustering algorithm based on the Wasserstein distance: we obtain a grouping which nicely fits the observed experimental data much more efficiently than the Sobolev distance.

Topik & Kata Kunci

Penulis (3)

J

Jawad Ali

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Giovanna Citti

A

Alessandro Sarti

Format Sitasi

Ali, J., Citti, G., Sarti, A. (2026). A sub-Riemannian model of the motor cortex with Wasserstein distance. https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20756

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