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SUBMITTER: Berniker M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2707921 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Berniker Max M Kording Konrad K
Nature neuroscience 20081116 12
Motor adaptation is usually defined as the process by which our nervous system produces accurate movements while the properties of our bodies and our environment continuously 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 estimates the sources of these errors. ...[more]