Nature Communications (Mar 2017)

Motor planning flexibly optimizes performance under uncertainty about task goals

  • Aaron L. Wong,
  • Adrian M. Haith

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14624
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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It is thought that, when goals are uncertain, actions are generated by averaging multiple possible movement plans. Here the authors show that movement planning under uncertainty instead varies flexibly depending on the speed of the movement in order to maximize success.