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BME 469: Neural Control and Mechanics of Movement

This course is not currently offered.

Description

This graduate level survey course will cover the physiological elements within the vertebrate motor system and the computational problems intrinsic to the production of movement.  We will cover the computational issues that arise within motor control, both those issues which are general across the production of movement by any system and those which are specific to biological motor control. Topics will include representation learning, supervised and unsupervised learning, optimal control and estimation, and reinforcement learning.  The course will consist of a combination of lectures and paper discussions: lectures will present formal descriptions of computational analyses; papers will illustrate applications of these analyses or computational concepts to issues in the neural control of movement.


Textbook

No required readings.