Movement and the body
Learning movements, sensing a body, experiencing control and responding to touch.
8 problemsMovement and the body
Movement, bodily signals, timing and touch.
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6 totalInterval timing
Brains judge durations and time actions over fractions of a second to seconds. How are those intervals represented and flexibly adjusted?
Savings in motor adaptation
Relearning a movement adjustment can be faster than learning it first. Which memories and processes produce that advantage?
Sense of agency
We feel that our actions cause events. How do prediction and observed regularities combine to produce that feeling?
Body ownership
Vision and touch can make a rubber hand feel like your own. Which circuit processes produce this bodily attribution?
Ticklishness
Tickling can produce involuntary laughter and mixed feelings. How human touch processing, context and laughter circuits combine remains incomplete.
Psychological refractory period
Two quick tasks can make the second response wait. What controls that queue when response demands and task priorities change?