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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Hudson TE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2638584 | biostudies-other | 2007 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Journal of neurophysiology 20070926 5
We examined how subjects plan speeded reaching movements when the precise target of the movement is not known at movement onset. Before each reach, subjects were given only a probability distribution on possible target positions. Only after completing part of the movement did the actual target appear. In separate experiments we varied the location of the mode and the scale of the prior distribution for possible targets. In both cases we found that subjects made use of prior probability informati ...[more]