“…In this work, we draw inspiration from ( Meyes et al, 2019 ; Towlson and Barabási, 2020 ), where ablations are extended from single neurons to pairs and triplets, as well as ( Jonas and Kording, 2017 ), which suggests that lesioning studies could be more meaningful if we could simultaneously control the system at a given moment. Our method of controlling our agent is by applying precisely-timed surprise lateral perturbations, similar to those studied in animals ( Karayannidou et al, 2009 ; Hof et al, 2010 ), and robots ( Kasaei et al, 2023 ). However, our focus is not just on the bio-mechanical response, but on the neural activity that ultimately drives this stabilizing behavior.…”