How the credit assignment problems in motor control could be solved after the cerebellum predicts increases in error.

ABSTRACT: We present a cerebellar architecture with two main characteristics. The first one is that complex spikes respond to increases in sensory errors. The second one is that cerebellar modules associate particular contexts where errors have increased in the past with corrective commands that stop the increase in error. We analyze our architecture formally and computationally for the case of reaching in a 3D environment. In the case of motor control, we show that there are synergies of this architecture with the Equilibrium-Point hypothesis, leading to novel ways to solve the motor error and distal learning problems. In particular, the presence of desired equilibrium lengths for muscles provides a way to know when the error is increasing, and which corrections to apply. In the context of Threshol

SUBMITTER: Verduzco-Flores SO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4371707 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature