Performance monitoring for sensorimotor confidence: A visuomotor tracking study.

ABSTRACT: To best interact with the external world, humans are often required to consider the quality of their actions. Sometimes the environment furnishes rewards or punishments to signal action efficacy. However, when such feedback is absent or only partial, we must rely on internally generated signals to evaluate our performance (i.e., metacognition). Yet, very little is known about how humans form such judgements of sensorimotor confidence. Do they monitor their actual performance or do they rely on cues to sensorimotor uncertainty? We investigated sensorimotor metacognition in two visuomotor tracking experiments, where participants followed an unpredictably moving dot cloud with a mouse cursor as it followed a random horizontal trajectory. Their goal was to infer the underlying target generatin

SUBMITTER: Locke SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7669557 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature