This is a short extract from The Puppet Master: How the Brain Controls the Body

This lecture will explain the complexity of the brain and demonstrate that a key feature of skilled human motor performance is the ability of the brain to perform optimally in the presence of uncertainty.

Daniel Wolpert is Professor of Engineering for the Life Sciences at

Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. He read Medical Sciences at

Cambridge and Clinical Medicine at Oxford. After working as a medical

doctor for a year he completed a PhD in the Physiology Department at Oxford. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at MIT before moving to the Institute of Neurology, UCL where he spent ten years. His research interests are computational and experimental approaches to human sensorimotor control.