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SUMMARY:Computational Neuroscience Journal Club - Arne Nagengast (Universi
 ty of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Dr Jean-Pascal Pfister
DESCRIPTION:Arne Nagengast will present\n\nEstimating the sources of motor
  errors for adaptation and generalization\n\nMax Berniker and Konrad Kordi
 ng\, Nat. Neuroscience 2008.\n\nThe link to the PDF: http://www.nature.com
 /neuro/journal/v11/n12/pdf/nn.2229.pdf\n\nAbstract:\nMotor adaptation is u
 sually defined as the process by which our nervous system produces accurat
 e movements while the properties of our bodies and our environment continu
 ously change. Many experimental and theoretical studies have characterized
  this process by assuming that the nervous system uses internal models to 
 compensate for motor errors. Here we extend these approaches and construct
  a probabilistic model that not only compensates for motor errors but esti
 mates the sources of these errors. These estimates dictate how the nervous
  system should generalize. For example\, estimated changes of limb propert
 ies will affect movements across the workspace but not movements with the 
 other limb. We provide evidence that many movement-generalization phenomen
 a emerge from a strategy by which the nervous system estimates the sources
  of our motor errors.\n
LOCATION:Cambridge University Engineering Department\, CBL Rm #438 (http:/
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