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11 - Computer Science and Informatics
King's College London
Primitives for motor adaptation reflect correlated neural turning to position and velocity
<28>This paper provides the first experimental evidence on the correlated distribution of motor primitives in the position and velocity dependent force field space in the human motor system. This paper was featured in Nature journal club – Nature, vol. 463, 21 Jan 2010. This is the first paper that shows a relationship between the way humans learn to compensate for external visco-elastic force fields (ex. opening the lid of a bottle) and the distributions of the motor primitives. It shows why humans find it easy to learn positively correlated visco-elastic force fields as opposed to those negatively correlated fields.