Exploring disturbance as a force for good in motor learning.

Disturbance forces facilitate motor learning, but theoretical explanations for this counterintuitive phenomenon are lacking. Smooth arm movements require predictions (inference) about the force-field associated with a workspace. The Free Energy Principle (FEP) suggests that such 'active inferen...

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Main Authors: Jack Brookes, Faisal Mushtaq, Earle Jamieson, Aaron J Fath, Geoffrey Bingham, Peter Culmer, Richard M Wilkie, Mark Mon-Williams
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224055