The role of effort in determining preferred movement speed.

Published in In Prep, 2021

Recommended citation: Bruening, Garrick; Ahmed, Alaa. (2021). "Effects of mass on metabolic cost of arm reaching." IN PREP. https://gbruening.github.io/presentations/RMASB2019

We compared the metabolic cost of arm reaching to preferred arm reaching durations. The minimum metabolic cost does not agree with the preferred duration. A utility model that sums the reward minus effort, both discounted by time, is able to well predict the preferred movement duration.

The metabolic minimum's and function describing the curve.

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