ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
Uncovering the mechanisms behind rapid motor adaptation in the brain using recurrent neural networks
Animals and humans learn some motor skills very slowly: for example, it takes about a year for a baby to learn to walk. In comparison, motor adaptation can be very fast. For example, the first time someone walks on snow, it might take them a little time to get used to the new conditions, but not a whole year. And adaptation depends on previous acquired skillset. Mastering tennis for instance increases how fast squash is learned, but also some “bad habits” from tennis have to be unlearned, and switching to squash for too long can hurt one’s performance in tennis. But how the brain learns different motor skills is still unknown. The main reasons are 1) it is very hard to record single neural…
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