Contextual inference underlies the learning of sensorimotor repertoires.

ABSTRACT:

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Humans spend a lifetime learning, storing and refining a repertoire of motor memories. For example, through experience, we become proficient at manipulating a large range of objects with distinct dynamical properties. However, it is unknown what principle underlies how our continuous stream of sensorimotor experience is segmented into separate memories and how we adapt and use this growing repertoire. Here we develop a theory of motor learning based on the key principle that memory creation, updating and expression are all controlled by a single computation-contextual inference. Our theory reveals that adaptation can arise both by creating and updating memories (proper learning) and by changing how existing memories are differentially expressed (apparent learning). This in

SUBMITTER: Heald JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8809113 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature