Motor inhibition

Decision making and motor control

Decision making and motor control

This interdisciplinary research group focuses on studying the physiological and behavioral correlates of decision-making processes, motor decisions, and movement control guided by decisional processes. The primary goal is to unveil the neural mechanisms and computational principles underlying how organisms, including humans, select appropriate actions and execute them effectively to achieve their goals.

Pointing movements and visuo-spatial working memory in a joint setting: the role of motor inhibition

Previous studies have shown that, under specific conditions, arrays that have been pointed at encoding are recognized better than passively viewed ones. According to one interpretation, the superior recognition of pointed-to arrays can be explained by the motor inhibition of passively viewed arrays. The present study sought to determine whether a similar motor inhibition can be induced also when the participants observed a co-actor perform the pointing movements.

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