Time-Integrated Position Error Accounts for Sensorimotor Behavior in Time-Constrained Tasks
Published on 2012-03-21 in PLoS ONE, vol 7. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033724
Research Article, Social and behavioral sciences, Psychology, Biology, Neuroscience, Computational neuroscience, Medicine, Mental health, Cognitive neuroscience, Mathematics, Applied mathematics, Mental Health
Several studies have shown that human motor behavior can be successfully described using optimal control theory, which describes behavior by optimizing the trade-off between the subject's effort and performance. This approach predicts that subjects reach the goal exactly at the final time. However, another strategy might be that subjects try to reach the target position well before the final time to avoid the risk of missing the target. To test this, we have investigated whether…
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