Neurons in the brain are often many synapses away from motoneurons, yet if a movement results in error, each distant neuron needs a teacher that considers its specific contribution to production of th...

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Implicit sensorimotor adaptation—the automatic correction of movement errors—is driven by a perceptual prediction error, the mismatch between the perceived movement outcome and its intended goal. Alth...

Abstract. Monogamy has been argued to have played an important role in human evolution and, across animals more generally, evolutionary transitions to high

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The results help explain how the hippocampus can recall information about a place without an animal physically revisiting it.

Null space theory predicts that neurons generate spikes not only to produce behavior but also to prevent the undesirable effect of other neurons on behavior. In this work, we show that this competitiv...