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SUMMARY:Computational Neuroscience Journal Club - Hannah Sheahan (CBL)
DTSTART:20161004T150000Z
DTEND:20161004T160000Z
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CONTACT:Daniel McNamee
DESCRIPTION:Hannah Sheahan will cover:\n\n* The Statistical Determinants o
 f the Speed of Motor Learning\n* Kang He\, You Liang\, Farnaz Abdollahi\, 
 Moria Fisher Bittmann\, Konrad Kording\, Kunlin Wei\n* PLoS Computational 
 Biology (September 2016)\n* "Link to paper":http://journals.plos.org/plosc
 ompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005023\n\nABSTRACT:\nIt has recen
 tly been suggested that movement variability directly increases the speed 
 of motor learning. Here we use computational modeling of motor adaptation 
 to show that variability can have a broad range of effects on learning\, b
 oth negative and positive. Experimentally\, we also find contributing and 
 decelerating effects. Lastly\, through a meta-analysis of published papers
 \, we verify that across a wide range of experiments\, movement variabilit
 y has no statistical relation with learning rate. While motor learning is 
 a complex process that can be modeled\, further research is needed to unde
 rstand the relative importance of the involved factors.
LOCATION:Cambridge University Engineering Department\, CBL\, BE-438 (http:
 //learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions)
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