Knowing each random error of our ways, but hardly correcting for it: an instance of optimal performance.

Random errors are omnipresent in sensorimotor tasks due to perceptual and motor noise. The question is, are humans aware of their random errors on an instance-by-instance basis? The appealing answer would be 'no' because it seems intuitive that humans would otherwise immediately correct fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Loes C J van Dam, Marc O Ernst
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3813602?pdf=render