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The emergence of movement units through learning with noisy efferent signals and delayed sensory feedback

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Neurocomputing, (2002)

Abstract

Rapid human arm movements often have velocity pro.les consisting of several bell-shaped acceleration–deceleration phases, sometimes overlapping in time and sometimes appearing separately. We show how such sub-movement sequences can emerge naturally as an optimal control policy is approximated by a reinforcement learning system in the face of uncertainty and feedback delay. The system learns to generate sequences ofpulse-step commands, producing fast initial sub-movements followed by several slow corrective sub-movements that often begin before the initial sub-movement has completed. These results suggest how the nervous system might e3ciently control a stochastic motor plant under uncertainty and feedback delay.

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