Biological Learning and Control by Reza Shadmehr - ISBN: 9780262549554
Paperback
Brain’s predictions, movement, and learning: revealing hidden biological control systems.

Biological Learning and Control

How the Brain Builds Representations, Predicts Events, and Makes Decisions

  • Paperback

    400 pages

  • Release Date

    31 October 2023

Summary

A novel theoretical framework that describes a possible rationale for the regularity in how we move, how we learn, and how our brain predicts events.

In Biological Learning and Control, Reza Shadmehr and Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi present a theoretical framework for understanding the regularity of the brain’s perceptions, its reactions to sensory stimuli, and its control of movements. They offer an account of perception as the combination of prediction and observation—the brain buil…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262549554
ISBN-10:0262549557
Author:Reza Shadmehr, Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:400
Release Date:31 October 2023
Weight:369g
Dimensions:229mm x 178mm
About The Author

Reza Shadmehr

Reza Shadmehr is Professor of Bioengineering and Professor of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the coauthor of The Computational Neurobiology of Reaching and Pointing and Biological Learning and Control.

Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi is Professor of Physiology in the Medical School at Northwestern University, with joint appointments in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Biomedical Engineering. He is also Founder and Director of the Robotics Laboratory at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.

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