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Motor Skill Development and Neural Networks for Position Code Invariance under Speed and Compliance Rescaling

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Sensory-Motor Organizations and Development in Infancy and Early Childhood

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This chapter presents two neural network modules capable of providing a secure foundation for safe self-organization of readily generalized movement skills. Called VITE and FLETE, these networks ensure position-code invariance under speed and compliance rescaling, respectively. This invariance property enables use of a simple strategy for skill development: For safety, we begin skill learning while performing at relatively low speed with relatively low limb compliance. Once learning guided by error feedback has reduced positioning errors, we increase speed and compliance. The invariance properties ensure that the shift to new values of the speed and compliance control signals will not require relearning. Both neural network models and the developmental strategy are compatible with, and help organize, large bodies of existing data. The FLETE network constitutes a comprehensive new model of the mammalian spino-muscular system.

Supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF IRI-87-16960).

Supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF IRI-87-16960) and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR F49620-86-C-0037 and AFOSR F49620-87-C-0018).

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Bullock, D., Grossberg, S. (1990). Motor Skill Development and Neural Networks for Position Code Invariance under Speed and Compliance Rescaling. In: Bloch, H., Bertenthal, B.I. (eds) Sensory-Motor Organizations and Development in Infancy and Early Childhood. NATO ASI Series, vol 56. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2071-2_1

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