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Costs and benefits of communicating vigor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2021

Cristina Becchio Open the ORCID record for Cristina Becchio [Opens in a new window] ,
Kiri Pullar  and
Stefano Panzeri
Cristina Becchio
Affiliation:
Cognition, Motion & Neuroscience, Center for Human Technologies, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, 16152 Genoa, Italy cristina.becchio@iit.it; https://www.iit.it/people/cristina-becchio; kiri.pullar@iit.it; https://www.iit.it/people/kiri-pullar;
Kiri Pullar
Affiliation:
Cognition, Motion & Neuroscience, Center for Human Technologies, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, 16152 Genoa, Italy cristina.becchio@iit.it; https://www.iit.it/people/cristina-becchio; kiri.pullar@iit.it; https://www.iit.it/people/kiri-pullar; Neural Computation Laboratory, Center for Human Technologies, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, 16152 Genoa, Italy. stefano.panzeri@iit.it; https://www.iit.it/people/stefano-panzeri
Stefano Panzeri
Affiliation:
Neural Computation Laboratory, Center for Human Technologies, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, 16152 Genoa, Italy. stefano.panzeri@iit.it; https://www.iit.it/people/stefano-panzeri
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Abstract

Why do we run toward people we love, but only walk toward others? One reason is to let them know we love them. In this commentary, we elaborate on how subjective utility information encoded in vigor is read out by others. We consider the potential implications for understanding and modeling the link between movements and decisions in social environments.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 44 , 2021 , e124
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