Sensorimotor Learning Group (Wolpertlab) 
Movement is the only way we have of interacting with the world, whether foraging for food or attracting a waiter's attention. Indeed, all communication, including speech, sign language, gestures and writing, is mediated via the motor system. Taking this viewpoint, the purpose of the human brain is to use sensory signals to determine future actions. The goal of our lab is to understand the computational principles underlying human sensorimotor control.
In the group we use theoretical studies, computer simulations, human experiments to examine the basis of skilled motor behaviour.
News
| Mar 13 | Daniel Wolpert appointed to the Royal Society Noreen Murray Research Professorship in Neurobiology |
| Mar 13 | Research Laboratory Technician Position (closing date: 25th March 2013) |
| May 12 | Gergő Orbán received a prestigious 'Momentum' Young Investigator Award to take up Faculty Position at Department of Theoretical Physics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest. |
| May 12 | Ian Howard to take up a Senior Lectureship in Software Engineering and Cognitive Robotics at the University of Plymouth. |
| Apr 12 | Daniel Wolpert elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) |
| Feb 12 | Daniel Wolpert receives a 7-year Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award |
| Nov 11 | Daniel Wolpert's TED talk "The real reason for brains" appears on TED.com and on YouTube |
| Nov 11 | Daniel Wolpert receives the Minerva Foundation Golden Brain Award |
| July 10 | David Franklin awarded a 5-year Research Career Development Fellowship in Basic Biomedical Science from the Wellcome Trust |
| March 10 | Lab featured in the Kavli Foundation Newsletter |
| Dec 09 | Daniel Wolpert appears on the Charlie Rose Bloomberg TV Special on The Acting Brain with Eric Kandel, John Krakauer, Tom Jessell and Robert Brown. Watch the special here. |
| Oct 09 | Daniel Wolpert gives the Fred Kavli Distinguished International Scientist Lecture at the 2009 Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago. Video now available. |
| Sept 09 | Arbora Resulaj's paper on changes-of-mind appears in Nature with a story behind the paper |
| Aug 09 | Daniel Braun awarded Hans Spemann prize from the Alberts-Ludwig-Universität Freiburg for his PhD. |
| July 09 | Aldo Faisal to take up Lectureship in Neuroscience at Imperial College London jointly between the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science. |
| May 09 | Daniel Wolpert gives a Plenary talk at 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2009) Kobe, Japan |
Lab Support
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