Risk optimization during ongoing movement: insights from movement and gaze behavior in throwing
- 1 July 2025
- journal article
- Published by American Physiological Society in Journal of Neurophysiology
- Vol. 134 (1) , 94-106
Abstract
We extend the study of sensorimotor behavior under risk from simple finger-pointing movements (Trommershäuser et al., Trends Cogn Sci 12: 291–297, 2008) to a complex throwing task in virtual reality. Our results suggest that, in complex sensorimotor behavior, risk evaluation of potential movements is not confined to a cognitive planning phase before movement but is optimized in action, with the motor system continuously biasing competing action options toward regions of higher expected rewards.Keywords
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