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Optimal strategies for movement: success with variability

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A new theory suggests the motor system acts as an optimal feedback controller and predicts such coordination features as task-constrained variability and goal-directed corrections.

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Figure 1: Diagram for implementing optimal feedback control as proposed by Todorov and Jordan1.

Rebecca Henretta

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Scott, S. Optimal strategies for movement: success with variability. Nat Neurosci 5, 1110–1111 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1102-1110

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