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ArticleeLife2026

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 eLife, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Tianhe WangDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0131-850X
J Ryan MoreheadSchool of Psychology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.
Amber JiangDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States.
Richard B Ivry *Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4728-5130
Jonathan S Tsay *Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3992-9023

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
Neural Mechanisms Supporting Implicit and Explicit Sensorimotor LearningF31NS120448 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI TSAY, JONATHAN · 2022 to 2023
$62k
FPTR F31NS120448NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC017091NINDS NIH HHS DC017091NINDS NIH HHS F31 NS120448NINDS NIH HHS NS116883NINDS 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 produced by human participants 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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ProprioceptionPsychomotor PerformanceVisual PerceptionBiomechanical PhenomenaHandHumansMovementcomputational biologyhumanmotor biasmotor controlneuroscienceproprioceptionreachingreference framesystems biologyvisual bias

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PMID41711342
PMCPMC12919971

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