Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

A model of temporal scaling correctly predicts that motor timing improves with speed

  • Nicholas F. Hardy,
  • Vishwa Goudar,
  • Juan L. Romero-Sosa,
  • Dean V. Buonomano

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07161-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Humans can perform complex motor movements at varying speeds. Here, the authors show that a recurrent neural network can be trained to exhibit temporal scaling obeying Weber’s law as well as validate a prediction of the model of improved precision of movements at faster speeds.