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Dr Daniel Wolpert, FRS [CBL, Cambridge]
Wednesday 06 February 2013, 19:00-20:30
What's a brain for? A moving story
- đ¤ Speaker: Dr Daniel Wolpert, FRS [CBL, Cambridge]
- đ Date & Time: Wednesday 06 February 2013, 19:00 - 20:30
- đ Venue: Large Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site
Abstract
The effortless ease with which humans move our arms, our eyes, even our lips when we speak masks the true complexity of the control processes involved. This is evident when we try to build machines to perform human control tasks. While computers can now beat grandmasters at chess, no computer can yet control a robot to manipulate a chess piece with the dexterity of a six-year-old child. A major factor that makes control hard is the uncertainty inherent in the world and in our own sensory and motor systems. I will review our work that demonstrate that a key feature of skilled human motor performance is the ability of the brain to perform optimally in the presence of uncertainty.
The talk is free for members of BioSoc, and ÂŖ1 for everyone else.
Series This talk is part of the Cambridge University Biological Society series.
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