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SUBMITTER: Braun DA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2692080 | biostudies-literature | 2009 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Braun Daniel A DA Aertsen Ad A Wolpert Daniel M DM Mehring Carsten C
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20090501 20
Picking up an empty milk carton that we believe to be full is a familiar example of adaptive control, because the adaptation process of estimating the carton's weight must proceed simultaneously with the control process of moving the carton to a desired location. Here we show that the motor system initially generates highly variable behavior in such unpredictable tasks but eventually converges to stereotyped patterns of adaptive responses predicted by a simple optimality principle. These results ...[more]