Motor Control is Decision-Making

By D. M. Wolpert, Michael S. Landy. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2012

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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.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

Thermodynamics as a theory of decision-making with information-processing costs (2012, background): “Therefore, choosing how to move an effector can also be considered as a decision-making problem [72].”
Ecological cognition: expert decision-making behaviour in sport (2017, background): “The upshot is that causes for behavioural disturbances are located in disturbances of brain function or in lack of sensitivity to ‘cues to control’ performance (e.g. O’Brien & Ahmed, 2016; Wolpert & Landy, 2012; Yarrow et al., 2009).”