Topic: Motor decision-making

Individuals regularly have to decide upon motor actions to be performed. Motor decision-making involves the selection between and specification of potential action plans (Cisek, 2007) and necessitates the integration of perceptual, cognitive, and motor processes (Cisek & Kalaska, 2010; van Ede & Nobre, 2023). The influence of cognitive load during decision-making on subsequent motor action execution remains largely unexplored (Gordon et al., 2021). This study investigates the influence of working memory (WM) load on goal-directed pointing movements, hypothesizing that increased WM load

Several studies highlight motivation's crucial role in motor decision-making for maximizing potential rewards. However, how explicit rewards impact the neural dynamics of decision-making processes and their effects on neural organization at the network level, is still unexplored. To address this gap, we analyzed neuronal activity recorded from the premotor cortex (PMd) of three monkeys while performing a modified version of the stop signal task. In this task, the motivation to either act or inhibit action was manipulated using Cues that informed about different reward contexts. We conducted an