Inferring control objectives in a virtual balancing task in humans and monkeys.

ABSTRACT: Natural behaviors have redundancy, which implies that humans and animals can achieve their goals with different control objectives. Given only observations of behavior, is it possible to infer the control strategy that the subject is employing? This challenge is particularly acute in animal behavior because we cannot ask or instruct the subject to use a particular control strategy. This study presents a threepronged approach to infer an animal's control strategy from behavior. First, both humans and monkeys performed a virtual balancing task for which different control objectives could be utilized. Under matched experimental conditions, corresponding behaviors were observed in humans and monkeys. Second, a generative model was developed that represented two main control strategies to achie

SUBMITTER: Sadeghi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10187212 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature