Motor control is decision-making

DM Wolpert, MS Landy - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2012 - Elsevier
Motor behavior may be viewed as a problem of maximizing the utility of movement outcome
in the face of sensory, motor and task uncertainty. Viewed in this way, and allowing for the …

The computational and neural basis of voluntary motor control and planning

SH Scott - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2012 - cell.com
Optimal feedback control (OFC) provides a powerful tool to interpret voluntary motor control,
highlighting the importance of sensory feedback in the control and planning of movement …

Bayesian models: the structure of the world, uncertainty, behavior, and the brain

I Vilares, K Kording - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Experiments on humans and other animals have shown that uncertainty due to unreliable or
incomplete information affects behavior. Recent studies have formalized uncertainty and …

Wii Fit balance board playing improves balance and gait in Parkinson disease

PV Mhatre, I Vilares, SM Stibb, MV Albert, L Pickering… - Pm&r, 2013 - Elsevier
Objective To assess the effect of exercise training by using the Nintendo Wii Fit video game
and balance board system on balance and gait in adults with Parkinson disease (PD) …

Cognitive control as a multivariate optimization problem

H Ritz, X Leng, A Shenhav - Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
A hallmark of adaptation in humans and other animals is our ability to control how we think
and behave across different settings. Research has characterized the various forms …

[HTML][HTML] Differential representations of prior and likelihood uncertainty in the human brain

I Vilares, JD Howard, HL Fernandes, JA Gottfried… - Current Biology, 2012 - cell.com
Background Uncertainty shapes our perception of the world and the decisions we make.
Two aspects of uncertainty are commonly distinguished: uncertainty in previously acquired …

[HTML][HTML] The influence of visual target information on the online control of movements

FR Sarlegna, PK Mutha - Vision research, 2015 - Elsevier
The continuously changing properties of our environment require constant monitoring of our
actions and updating of our motor commands based on the task goals. Such updating relies …

Visual reliance for balance control in older adults persists when visual information is disrupted by artificial feedback delays

TT Yeh, T Cluff, R Balasubramaniam - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Sensory information from our eyes, skin and muscles helps guide and correct balance. Less
appreciated, however, is that delays in the transmission of sensory information between our …

Differential contributions of vision, touch and muscle proprioception to the coding of hand movements

C Blanchard, R Roll, JP Roll, A Kavounoudias - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
To further elucidate the mechanisms underlying multisensory integration, this study
examines the controversial issue of whether congruent inputs from three different sensory …

Predictive sensorimotor control in autism

T Arthur, S Vine, M Brosnan, G Buckingham - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Autism spectrum disorder has been characterized by atypicalities in how predictions and
sensory information are processed in the brain. To shed light on this relationship in the …