Real-world actions require one to simultaneously perceive, think, and act on the surrounding
world, requiring the integration of (bottom-up) sensory information and (top-down) cognitive …

Humans adapt their behavior to their external environment in a process often facilitated by
learning. Efforts to describe learning empirically can be complemented by quantitative …

The basal ganglia are known to influence action selection and modulation of movement
vigor, but whether and how they contribute to specifying the kinematics of learned motor …

One of the most striking features of human cognition is the ability to plan. Two aspects of
human planning stand out—its efficiency and flexibility. Efficiency is especially impressive …

Rapid execution of motor sequences is believed to depend on fusing movement elements
into cohesive units that are executed holistically. We sought to determine the contribution of …

Human behavior emerges from planning over elaborate decompositions of tasks into goals,
subgoals, and low-level actions. How are these decompositions created and used? Here …

Although it is widely accepted that the brain represents movement sequences hierarchically,
the neural implementation of this organization is still poorly understood. To address this …

The ability to sequence movements in response to new task demands enables rich and
adaptive behavior. However, such flexibility is computationally costly and can result in …

The brain has evolved to produce a diversity of behaviors under stringent computational
resource constraints. Given this limited capacity, how do biological agents balance reward …

An exhaustive review is reported of over 25 years of research with the Discrete Sequence
Production (DSP) task as reported in well over 100 articles. In line with the increasing call for …