ArticleJournal of neurophysiology2020
Saccade vigor and the subjective economic value of visual stimuli.
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- Reward influences movement vigor through multiple motor cortical mechanisms.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Rapid eye and hand responses in an interception task are differentially modulated by context-dependent predictability.Journal of vision · 2024Article
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- Effort cost of harvest affects decisions and movement vigor of marmosets during foraging.eLife · 2023Article
- Common Mechanisms of Learning in Motor and Cognitive Systems.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Review
- Methylphenidate modulates motor cortical dynamics and behavior.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Faces in scenes attract rapid saccades.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Modulation of Motor Vigor by Expectation of Reward Probability Trial-by-Trial Is Preserved in Healthy Ageing and Parkinson's Disease Patients.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Saccade vigor reflects the rise of decision variables during deliberation.Current biology : CB · 2022Article
- Synchronous spiking of cerebellar Purkinje cells during control of movements.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Using Artificial Intelligence for Assistance Systems to Bring Motor Learning Principles into Real World Motor Tasks.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Cognitive Control as a Multivariate Optimization Problem.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2022Article
- How the value of the environment controls persistence in visual search.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- The cost of correcting for error during sensorimotor adaptation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
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Abstract
Decisions are made based on the subjective value that the brain assigns to options. However, subjective value is a mathematical construct that cannot be measured directly, but rather is inferred from choices. Recent results have demonstrated that reaction time, amplitude, and velocity of movements are modulated by reward, raising the possibility that there is a link between how the brain evaluates an option and how it controls movements toward that option. Here, we asked people to choose among risky options represented by abstract stimuli, some associated with gain (points in a game), and others with loss. From their choices we estimated the subjective value that they assigned to each stimulus. In probe trials, a single stimulus appeared at center, instructing subjects to make a saccade to a peripheral target. We found that the reaction time, peak velocity, and amplitude of the peripherally directed saccade varied roughly linearly with the subjective value that the participant had assigned to the central stimulus: reaction time was shorter, velocity was higher, and amplitude was larger for stimuli that the participant valued more. Naturally, participants differed in how much they valued a given stimulus. Remarkably, those who valued a stimulus more, as evidenced by their choices in decision trials, tended to move with shorter reaction time and greater velocity in response to that stimulus in probe trials. Overall, the reaction time of the saccade in response to a stimulus partly predicted the subjective value that the brain assigned to that stimulus.
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