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Moving in an Uncertain World
Wed 08 May 2013, 16:00
Daniel Wolpert
University of Cambridge
Organiser: Jon Keating, FRS
ABSTRACT
The ease with which we move our body masks the true complexity of the control processes involved. While computers can beat grandmasters at chess, no robot comes close to matching the dexterity with which a young child can manipulate a chess piece. This talk reviews a major factor that makes control hard, the uncertainty about our body and the world as reflected in sensory and motor signals, and the mechanisms used by the brain to control movement in the face of this uncertainty.
Venue: Mott Lecture Theatre, School of Physics