Feeling lucky? Prospective and retrospective cues for sensorimotor confidence.

ABSTRACT: On a daily basis, humans interact with the outside world using judgments of sensorimotor confidence, constantly evaluating our actions for success. We ask, what sensory and motor-execution cues are used in making these judgements and when are they available? Two sources of temporally distinct information are prospective cues, available prior to the action (e.g., knowledge of motor noise and past performance), and retrospective cues specific to the action itself (e.g., proprioceptive measurements). We investigated the use of these two cues in two tasks, a secondary motor-awareness task and a main task in which participants reached toward a visual target with an unseen hand and then made a continuous judgment of confidence about the success of the reach. Confidence was reported by setting th

SUBMITTER: Fassold ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10348589 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature