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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2026

Motor biases reflect a misalignment between visual and proprioceptive reference frames.

Tianhe Wang, J Ryan Morehead, Amber Jiang, Richard B Ivry, Jonathan S Tsay

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Article in bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Tianhe WangDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley.ORCID 0000-0002-0131-850X
J Ryan MoreheadSchool of Psychology, University of Leeds.ORCID 0000-0001-5724-3028
Amber JiangDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley.
Richard B IvryDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley.
Jonathan S TsayDepartment of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University.ORCID 0000-0002-3992-9023
Carnegie Mellon University · USUniversity of California, Berkeley · USUniversity of Leeds · GB

Funding

Human Cerebellar Function in Multiple Task DomainsR35NS116883 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI RICHARD IVRY · 2020 to 2026
$5.3M
The role of the cerebellum in speechR01DC017091 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI John Francis Houde, RICHARD IVRY · 2019 to 2026
$4.5M
Specifying the constraints on cerebellar dependent sensorimotor adaptationR01NS105839 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI IVRY, RICHARD · 2018 to 2019
$709k
Neural Mechanisms Supporting Implicit and Explicit Sensorimotor LearningF31NS120448 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI TSAY, JONATHAN · 2022 to 2023
$62k
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC017091NINDS NIH HHS F31 NS120448NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS105839NINDS NIH HHS R35 NS116883
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Goal-directed movements can fail due to errors in our perceptual and motor systems. While these errors may arise from random noise within these sources, they also reflect systematic motor biases that vary with the location of the target. The origin of these systematic biases remains controversial. Drawing on data from an extensive array of reaching tasks conducted over the past 30 years, we evaluated the merits of various computational models regarding the origin of motor biases. Contrary to previous theories, we show that motor biases do not arise from systematic errors associated with the sensed hand position during motor planning or from the biomechanical constraints imposed during motor execution. Rather, motor biases are primarily caused by a misalignment between eye-centric and body-centric representations of position. This model can account for motor biases across a wide range of contexts, encompassing movements with the right versus left hand, finger versus hand movements, visible and occluded starting positions, as well as before and after sensorimotor adaptation.

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