@article{ref1,
title="A memory of errors in sensorimotor learning",
journal="Science",
year="2014",
author="Herzfeld, David J. and Vaswani, Pavan A. and Marko, Mollie and Shadmehr, Reza",
volume="345",
number="6202",
pages="1349-1353",
abstract="The current view of motor learning suggests that when we revisit a task, the brain recalls the motor commands it previously learned. In this view, motor memory is a memory of motor commands, acquired through trial-and-error and reinforcement. Here, we show that the brain controls how much it is willing to learn from the current error through a principled mechanism that depends on the history of past errors. This suggests that the brain stores a previously unknown form of memory, a memory of errors. A mathematical formulation of this idea provides insights into a host of puzzling experimental data, including savings and meta-learning, demonstrating that when we are better at a motor task, it is partly because the brain recognizes the errors it experienced before.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0036-8075",
doi="10.1126/science.1253138",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1253138"
}