Motor Control is Decision-making

Overview

Journal Curr Opin Neurobiol

Specialties Biology
Neurology

Date 2012 Jun 1

PMID 22647641

Citations 135

Authors

Daniel M Wolpert

Michael S Landy

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Abstract

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 availability of prior knowledge in the form of a probability distribution over possible states of the world, the choice of a movement plan and strategy for motor control becomes an application of statistical decision theory. This point of view has proven successful in recent years in accounting for movement under risk, inferring the loss function used in motor tasks, and explaining motor behavior in a wide variety of circumstances.

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