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Asynchronous neural integration: Compensation or computational tolerance and skill acquisition?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2008

James E. Cutting
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-7601. jec7@cornell.eduhttp://people.psych.cornell.edu/~jec7/index.htm

Abstract

Nijhawan argues that neural compensation is necessary to account for couplings of perception and action. Although perhaps true in some cases, computational tolerance for asynchronously arriving continuous information is of more importance. Moreover, some of the everyday venues Nijhawan uses to argue for the relevance of prediction and compensation can be better ascribed to skill.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright ©Cambridge University Press 2008

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