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Colin Korbisch's paper on saccade vigor during delibaration is featured in CU Boulder Today .

Today Shruthi presented her work titled "Effort expenditure links control of vigor with decision-making" at the Advances in Motor Learning and Motor Control Virtual Conference. Her talk was one of 12 selected talks.

Why do you run to greet a loved one but merely walk to greet an acquantaince? What do our movements reveal of our mind? For an attempt at an answer - check out the new book Vigor: Neuroeconomics of Movement Control by Reza Shadmehr and Alaa Ahmed.

Congrats to Dr. Erik Summerside for his article, " Vigor of reaching movements: reward discounts the cost of effort " being one of the ten most cited papers in the Journal of Neurophysiology.

Our very own Gary Bruening will be teaching a tutorial on how to use GitHub for biomechanics collaborations and code reporducability with the Applied Biomechanics Lab's Ryan Alcantara. Congrats Gary and we look forward to learning from you!

We are currently looking for undergraduate research assistants for two projects: The Effects of Fatigue and Stress on Eye Movements (Contact: Daniel Apuan ) The Effect of Perceived Effort and Reward on Movement Speed (Contact: Robbie Courter ) Updating of a Wii Balance Board for Use in Postural Assessment (Contact:...

Do you hate more work as much as you love less work? For an answer - check out Megan O'Brien's paper on loss aversion in effort-based decisions!

Congratulations to our own Colin Korbisch on your acceptance to give a podium talk at the Advances in Motor Learning and Motor Control Meeting in Chicago on October 18. Congratulations as well as on being on selected to recieve the United Government of Graduate Students Travel Grant to attend this...

Our Lab is co-organizing the 2019 MLMC Meeting (see website: http://www.motor-conference.org/openconf.php ). We look forward to seeing you there!

Welcome Rachel Marbaker to the Neuromechanics Lab! Rachel joins us from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania.