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Vigor

Neuroeconomics of Movement Control

Author Reza Shadmehr, Alaa A. Ahmed
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The MIT Press
On sale Jul 21, 2020 | 368 Pages | 9780262358705
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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.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: The Effort of Movement
Chapter 2: Movements and Decisions in a Normative Framework
Chapter 3: Reaction Time and Deliberation
Chapter 4: Neural Prelude to a Movement
Chapter 5: Cortical Computation of Utility
Chapter 6: Basal Ganglia and the Motivation to Move
Chapter 7: Serotonin and the Promotion of Sloth
Conclusions
Reference list
Index
Reza Shadmehr is Professor of Bioengineering and Professor of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the coauthor of The Computational Neurobiology of Reaching and Pointing and Biological Learning and Control (both published by the MIT Press). Alaa A. Ahmed is Associate Professor in the Departments of Integrative Physiology and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado.
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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.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: The Effort of Movement
Chapter 2: Movements and Decisions in a Normative Framework
Chapter 3: Reaction Time and Deliberation
Chapter 4: Neural Prelude to a Movement
Chapter 5: Cortical Computation of Utility
Chapter 6: Basal Ganglia and the Motivation to Move
Chapter 7: Serotonin and the Promotion of Sloth
Conclusions
Reference list
Index

Author

Reza Shadmehr is Professor of Bioengineering and Professor of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the coauthor of The Computational Neurobiology of Reaching and Pointing and Biological Learning and Control (both published by the MIT Press). Alaa A. Ahmed is Associate Professor in the Departments of Integrative Physiology and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado.
Reza Shadmehr View titles by Reza Shadmehr
Alaa A. Ahmed View titles by Alaa A. Ahmed

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