Deliberation in the motor system: reflex gains track evolving evidence leading to a decision

LPJ Selen, MN Shadlen, DM Wolpert - Journal of Neuroscience, 2012 - Soc Neuroscience
Both decision making and sensorimotor control require real-time processing of noisy
information streams. Historically these processes were thought to operate sequentially …

Perceptual-motor exploration as a function of biomechanical and task constraints

PV McDonald, SK Oliver, KM Newell - Acta psychologica, 1995 - Elsevier
Four experiments are reported that were designed to examine perceptual-motor exploration
employed in determining the solution to a dual-axis positioning task under various …

Variability of practice, information processing, and decision making—how much do we know?

SH Czyż - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Decision-making is a complex action requiring efficient information processing. Specifically,
in movement in which performance efficiency depends on reaction time, eg, open-loop …

Cognitive trying

F Adams - Contemporary Action Theory Volume 1: Individual …, 1997 - Springer
People do things (walk, talk, plan for retirement). People also try to do things (to quit
smoking, to time the stock market, to preserve their marriages). Doing and trying are very …

Motor cognition: The role of sentience in perception and action

E Morsella, AG Velasquez… - Kinesiology …, 2020 - journals.humankinetics.com
The function of the conscious field remains mysterious from a scientific point of view. This
article reviews theoretical approaches (passive frame theory and ideomotor approaches) …

Bodily and motor contributions to action perception

G Knoblich - Embodiment, ego-space, and action, 2008 - taylorfrancis.com
Over the last 50 years, cognitive scientists have been on a hunt for a general architecture of
cognition, initially with great enthusiasm (Newell, 1990; Newell, Shaw, & Simon, 1956; …

The fox and the grapes—how physical constraints affect value based decision making

J Gross, E Woelbert, M Strobel - PloS One, 2015 - journals.plos.org
One fundamental question in decision making research is how humans compute the values
that guide their decisions. Recent studies showed that people assign higher value to goods …

Neither mindful nor mindless, but minded: habits, ecological psychology, and skilled performance

M Segundo-Ortin, M Heras-Escribano - Synthese, 2021 - Springer
A widely shared assumption in the literature about skilled motor behavior is that any action
that is not blindly automatic and mechanical must be the product of computational processes …

Moving arms: The effects of sensorimotor information on the problem-solving process

K Werner, M Raab, MH Fischer - Thinking & Reasoning, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Embodied cognition postulates a bi-directional link between the human body and its
cognitive functions. Whether this holds for higher cognitive functions such as problem …

Temporal dynamics of decision making: A synthesis of computational and neurophysiological approaches

A Harris, CA Hutcherson - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
As interest in the temporal dynamics of decision‐making has grown, researchers have
increasingly turned to computational approaches such as the drift diffusion model (DDM) to …