The importance of tradeoffs in neural and motor variability
Abstract
Casartelli et al's [1] article offers a refreshing and sophisticated perspective on motor variability and its possible functional and computational roles. The perspective taken by the authors goes beyond a one-dimensional antithetical distinction between detrimental and beneficial variability. Casartelli et al. also discuss that what is detrimental and what is beneficial, or in other words, what is signal or what is noise, may be task-dependent and subtle to conceptualize. They also argue that if the brain and the body were efficient machines, they would be designed to minimize the detrimental effects and maximize the beneficial ones.
- Publication:
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Physics of Life Reviews
- Pub Date:
- March 2024
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.plrev.2024.01.001
- Bibcode:
- 2024PhLRv..48..164P