TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - A memory of errors in sensorimotor learning
JO  - Science
A1  - Herzfeld, David J.
A1  - Vaswani, Pavan A.
A1  - Marko, Mollie
A1  - Shadmehr, Reza
SP  - 1349
EP  - 1353
VL  - 345
IS  - 6202
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0036-8075
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1253138
ID  - ref1
ER  -