Modeling and Analysis of Human Motor Control and Learn- ing

The Problem: How does human neural circuitry control posture and voluntary movements? Humans are equipped with an amazing repertoire of motor skills. Despite being outfitted with what by many engineering criterion are noisy signals, slow computation times, devastating transmission delays and marginal actuators, the human system exhibits motor control and, more impressively, motor learning that far surpass our best engineering efforts. We seek a better understanding of how this is accomplished.