This is a short extract from The Puppet Master: How the Brain Controls the Body<p>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.<p>Daniel Wolpert is Professor of Engineering for the Life Sciences atCambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. He read Medical Sciences atCambridge and Clinical Medicine at Oxford. After working as a medicaldoctor 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.