Vigor: Neuroeconomics of Movement Control

Vigor: Neuroeconomics of Movement Control
ISBN-10
0262358700
ISBN-13
9780262358705
Category
Science
Pages
368
Language
English
Published
2020-07-21
Publisher
MIT Press
Authors
Reza Shadmehr, Alaa A. Ahmed

Description

An examination of the link between the vigor with which we move and the value that the brain assigns to the goal of the movement. Why do we reflexively run toward people we love, but only walk toward others? In Vigor, Reza Shadmehr and Alaa Ahmed examine the link between how the brain assigns value to things and how it controls our movements. They find that brain regions thought to be principally involved in decision making also affect movement vigor--and that brain regions thought to be principally responsible for movement also bias patterns of decision making.

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