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ArticleScientific reports2023

Movement characteristics impact decision-making and vice versa.

Thomas Carsten, Fanny Fievez, Julie Duque

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Article in Scientific reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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  6. Reaching Distance Influences Perceptual Decisions.The European journal of neuroscience · 2025
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3 authors.

Thomas CarstenCoActions Lab, Institute of Neuroscience, Université Catholique Louvain, Tour Bernard Tower, 2d Floor, Ave Hippocrate 54, 1200, Bruxelles, Belgium. thomascarsten90@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-6651-4958
Fanny FievezCoActions Lab, Institute of Neuroscience, Université Catholique Louvain, Tour Bernard Tower, 2d Floor, Ave Hippocrate 54, 1200, Bruxelles, Belgium.
Julie DuqueCoActions Lab, Institute of Neuroscience, Université Catholique Louvain, Tour Bernard Tower, 2d Floor, Ave Hippocrate 54, 1200, Bruxelles, Belgium.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Previous studies suggest that humans are capable of coregulating the speed of decisions and movements if promoted by task incentives. It is unclear however whether such behavior is inherent to the process of translating decisional information into movements, beyond posing a valid strategy in some task contexts. Therefore, in a behavioral online study we imposed time constraints to either decision- or movement phases of a sensorimotor task, ensuring that coregulating decisions and movements was not promoted by task incentives. We found that participants indeed moved faster when fast decisions were promoted and decided faster when subsequent finger tapping movements had to be executed swiftly. These results were further supported by drift diffusion modelling and inspection of psychophysical kernels: Sensorimotor delays related to initiating the finger tapping sequence were shorter in fast-decision as compared to slow-decision blocks. Likewise, the decisional speed-accuracy tradeoff shifted in favor of faster decisions in fast-tapping as compared to slow-tapping blocks. These findings suggest that decisions not only impact movement characteristics, but that properties of movement impact the time taken to decide. We interpret these behavioral results in the context of embodied decision-making, whereby shared neural mechanisms may modulate decisions and movements in a joint fashion.

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MovementPsychomotor PerformanceHumansReaction Time

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PMCPMC9968293

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