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
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).
An exciting guide for those who want to understand from a
computational and neural perspective how and why the vigor of our
actions reveals so much about our inner thoughts.
- Daniel Wolpert, Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior
Institute, Columbia University Vigor provides fascinating
biological foundations of utility and choice by showing how our
movements reveal our preferences. Shadmehr and Ahmed offer a
cardinal measurement tool for utility that is of fundamental
interest to all scholars in decision science.
- Ernst Fehr, Director of the UBS Center for Economics in
Society, University of Zurich Using multiple features,
including attention and motivation, Shadmehr and Ahmed show how
mind and action are controlled by various brain areas. This unique
approach makes Vigor an important book for both individuals
and society.
- Okihide Hikosaka, Distinguished Investigator, NIH
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