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    Professor Daniel Wolpert FMedSci FRS

    University Position
    Professor

    Interests

    The group uses engineering approaches to understand how the human brain controls movement. The work includes both computational modelling and experimental approaches using robotic and virtual reality interfaces. Research areas include motor planning and optimal control, probabilistic (Bayesian) models, motor predictive and modular approaches to motor learning.

    Key Publications

    Contextual inference underlies the learning of sensorimotor repertoires.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04129-3
    Journal: Nature
    E-pub date: 1 Dec 2021
    Authors: JB Heald, M Lengyel, DM Wolpert

    Cognitive tomography reveals complex, task-independent mental representations.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2013.09.012
    Journal: Curr Biol
    E-pub date: 4 Nov 2013
    Authors: NMT Houlsby, F Huszár, MM Ghassemi, G Orbán, DM Wolpert, M Lengyel

    Attenuation of self-generated tactile sensations is predictive, not postdictive.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040028
    Journal: PLoS Biol
    E-pub date: 1 Feb 2006
    Authors: PM Bays, JR Flanagan, DM Wolpert

    Two eyes for an eye: the neuroscience of force escalation.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1126/science.1085327
    Journal: Science
    E-pub date: 11 Jul 2003
    Authors: SS Shergill, PM Bays, CD Frith, DM Wolpert

    Publications

    Spatial uncertainty and environmental geometry in navigation.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.30.526278
    Journal:
    E-pub date: 1 Feb 2023
    Authors: YH Kang, DM Wolpert, M Lengyel

    Contextual inference in learning and memory.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.10.004
    Journal: Trends Cogn Sci
    E-pub date: 1 Jan 2023
    Authors: JB Heald, M Lengyel, DM Wolpert

    Unimodal statistical learning produces multimodal object-like representations.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.43942
    Journal: Elife
    E-pub date: 1 May 2019
    Authors: G Lengyel, G Žalalytė, A Pantelides, JN Ingram, J Fiser, M Lengyel, DM Wolpert

    Theoretical perspectives on active sensing.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2016.06.009
    Journal: Curr Opin Behav Sci
    E-pub date: 1 Oct 2018
    Authors: SC-H Yang, DM Wolpert, M Lengyel

    Active sensing in the categorization of visual patterns.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.12215
    Journal: Elife
    E-pub date: 10 Feb 2016
    Authors: SC-H Yang, M Lengyel, DM Wolpert