Limits to human movement planning in tasks with asymmetric gain landscapes

Journal of Vision

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 53-63

  Wu, Shih Wei ^a   Trommershäuser, Julia ^b   Maloney, Laurence T ^a   Landy, Michael S ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Movement planning; Optimality; Statistical control; Statistical decision theory; Visuomotor control

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EYE HAND COORDINATION; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MENTAL TEST; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL MOBILITY; PUNISHMENT; RESPONSE TIME; REWARD; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REWARD;

EID: 32144436572     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/6.1.5     Document Type: Article

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