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Published on: May 8, 2021
Sensory feedback expands dynamic complexity and aids in robustness against noise
1Institute of Systems Neuroscience, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. ajw@lolab-nthu.org.
Abstract:
It has been hypothesized that sensory feedback is a critical component in determining the functionality of a central pattern generator. To test this, Yu and Thomas's recent work Yu and Thomas (Biol Cybern 115(2):135-160, 2021) built a model of a half-center oscillator coupled to a simple muscular model with sensory feedback. They showed that sensory feedback increases robustness against external noise, while simultaneously expanding the potential repertoire of functions the half-center oscillator can perform. However, they show that this comes at the cost of robustness against internal noise.
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