Vigor: Neuroeconomics of Movement Control Dean Carignan Back at home

Back at home

And a nervous child dances in her first Mawi’omi

always searching for the hidden goodness: compassion

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The #1 bestselling author of The Anxious Generation and acclaimed social psychologist challenges conventional thinking about morality

Vigor: Neuroeconomics of Movement Control Dean Carignan Back at homeAn examination of the link between the vigor with which we move and the value that the brain assigns to the goal of the movement. Why do we reflexively run toward people we love, but only walk toward others? In Vigor, Reza Shadmehr and Alaa Ahmed examine the link between how the brain assigns value to things and how it controls our movements. They find that brain regions thought to be principally involved in decision making also affect movement