Data associated with publication “Variability in Locomotor Dynamics Reveals the Critical Role of Feedback in Task Control”

This project includes data from experiments conducted with weakly electric fish Eigenmannia virescens while tracking a moving a refuge. In this project, we studied the effect of sensory feedback on the variability of task performance. To examine this, we used data-driven system identification techniques to estimate transfer function models for the input—output behavioral response and the plant dynamics of the fish. We then, back-calculated associated sensorimotor controllers both in feedforward and feedback control topologies. Swapping controllers and plants across individuals in different control topologies allowed us to analyze the effect of sensory feedback on the variability of task performance. The project includes the data files for each experiment conducted with the fish.