A sensory source for motor variation
| Autor: | Stephen G. Lisberger, Leslie C. Osborne, William Bialek |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Time Factors Visual perception Eye Movements media_common.quotation_subject Speech recognition Models Neurological Sensory system Fixation Ocular Bioinformatics Article Discrimination Learning Background noise Perception Motor system Animals Discrimination learning media_common Physics Multidisciplinary Brain Eye movement Macaca mulatta Pursuit Smooth Noise Visual Perception |
| Zdroj: | Nature. 437:412-416 |
| ISSN: | 1476-4687 0028-0836 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/nature03961 |
| Popis: | Suppose that the variability in our movements1–9 is caused not by noise in the motor system itself, nor by fluctuations in our intentions or plans, but rather by errors in our sensory estimates of the external parameters that define the appropriate action. For tasks in which precision is at a premium, performance would be optimal if no noise were added in movement planning and execution: motor output would be as accurate as possible given the quality of sensory inputs. Here we use visually guided smooth-pursuit eye movements in primates10 as a testing ground for this notion of optimality. In response to repeated presentations of identical target motions, nearly 92% of the variance in eye trajectory can be accounted for as a consequence of errors in sensory estimates of the speed, direction and timing of target motion, plus a small background noise that is observed both during eye movements and during fixations. The magnitudes of the inferred sensory errors agree with the observed thresholds for sensory discrimination by perceptual systems, suggesting that the very different neural processes of perception and action are limited by the same sources of noise. |
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