The advantage of flexible neuronal tunings in neural network models for motor learning
Human motor adaptation to novel environments is often modeled by a basis function network that transforms desired movement properties into estimated forces. This network employs a layer of nodes that have fixed broad tunings that generalize across the input domain. Learning is achieved by updating...
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| description | Human motor adaptation to novel environments is often modeled by a basis function network that transforms desired movement properties into estimated forces. This network employs a layer of nodes that have fixed broad tunings that generalize across the input domain. Learning is achieved by updating the weights of these nodes in response to training experience. This conventional model is unable to account for rapid flexibility observed in human spatial generalization during motor adaptation. However, added plasticity in the breadths of the basis function tunings can achieve this flexibility, and several neurophysiological experiments have revealed flexibility in tunings of sensorimotor neurons. We found a model, Locally Weighted Projection Regression (LWPR), which uniquely possesses the structure of a basis function network in which both the weights and tuning widths of the nodes are updated incrementally during adaptation. We presented this LWPR model with training functions of different spatial complexities and monitored incremental updates to receptive field sizes. An inverse pattern of dependence of receptive field adaptation on experienced error became evident, underlying both a relationship between generalization and complexity, and a unique behavior in which generalization always narrows after a sudden switch in environmental complexity. These results implicate a model with a flexible structure, like LWPR, as a viable alternative model for human motor adaptation that can account for previously observed plasticity in spatial generalization. This theory can be tested by using the behaviors observed in our experiments as novel hypotheses in human studies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8a6f6fd079384a80adb47f65a22e2f212022-12-21T17:57:35ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience1662-51882013-07-01710.3389/fncom.2013.0010045361The advantage of flexible neuronal tunings in neural network models for motor learningEllisha N Marongelli0K A Thoroughman1Washington University in Saint LouisWashington University in Saint LouisHuman motor adaptation to novel environments is often modeled by a basis function network that transforms desired movement properties into estimated forces. This network employs a layer of nodes that have fixed broad tunings that generalize across the input domain. Learning is achieved by updating the weights of these nodes in response to training experience. This conventional model is unable to account for rapid flexibility observed in human spatial generalization during motor adaptation. However, added plasticity in the breadths of the basis function tunings can achieve this flexibility, and several neurophysiological experiments have revealed flexibility in tunings of sensorimotor neurons. We found a model, Locally Weighted Projection Regression (LWPR), which uniquely possesses the structure of a basis function network in which both the weights and tuning widths of the nodes are updated incrementally during adaptation. We presented this LWPR model with training functions of different spatial complexities and monitored incremental updates to receptive field sizes. An inverse pattern of dependence of receptive field adaptation on experienced error became evident, underlying both a relationship between generalization and complexity, and a unique behavior in which generalization always narrows after a sudden switch in environmental complexity. These results implicate a model with a flexible structure, like LWPR, as a viable alternative model for human motor adaptation that can account for previously observed plasticity in spatial generalization. This theory can be tested by using the behaviors observed in our experiments as novel hypotheses in human studies.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncom.2013.00100/fullNeural Networkgeneralizationcomputational neurosciencemotor controlmotor adaptation |
| spellingShingle | Ellisha N Marongelli K A Thoroughman The advantage of flexible neuronal tunings in neural network models for motor learning Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience Neural Network generalization computational neuroscience motor control motor adaptation |
| title | The advantage of flexible neuronal tunings in neural network models for motor learning |
| title_full | The advantage of flexible neuronal tunings in neural network models for motor learning |
| title_fullStr | The advantage of flexible neuronal tunings in neural network models for motor learning |
| title_full_unstemmed | The advantage of flexible neuronal tunings in neural network models for motor learning |
| title_short | The advantage of flexible neuronal tunings in neural network models for motor learning |
| title_sort | advantage of flexible neuronal tunings in neural network models for motor learning |
| topic | Neural Network generalization computational neuroscience motor control motor adaptation |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncom.2013.00100/full |
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