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The minimum-variance theory [12] was proposed to account for the eye and arm movement. However, we point out here that i) the input signals used in the the simulations are not Poisson processes; ii) when the input signal is a Poisson process, the solution of the minimumvariance is degenerate.
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Feng, J. (2003). The Minimum-Variance Theory Revisited. In: Mira, J., Álvarez, J.R. (eds) Computational Methods in Neural Modeling. IWANN 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2686. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44868-3_9
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