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Matsuda N, Abe MO. Attenuation of implicit motor learning with consecutive exposure to visual errors. IBRO Neurosci Rep 2024; 17:32-37. [PMID: 38910907 PMCID: PMC11190668 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibneur.2024.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2024] [Revised: 04/16/2024] [Accepted: 05/20/2024] [Indexed: 06/25/2024] Open
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Visual errors induced by movement drive implicit corrections of that movement. When similar errors are experienced consecutively, does sensitivity to the error remain consistent each time? This study aimed to investigate the modulation of implicit error sensitivity through continuous exposure to the same errors. In the reaching task using visual error-clamp feedback, participants were presented with the same error in direction and magnitude for four consecutive trials. We found that implicit error sensitivity decreased after exposure to the second error. These results indicate that when visual errors occur consecutively, the sensorimotor system exhibits different responses, even for identical errors. The continuity of errors may be a factor that modulates error sensitivity.
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- Naoyoshi Matsuda
- Graduate School of Education, Hokkaido University, Kita-11, Nishi-7, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0811, Japan
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- Faculty of Education, Hokkaido University, Kita-11, Nishi-7, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0811, Japan
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Tsay JS, Kim HE, McDougle SD, Taylor JA, Haith A, Avraham G, Krakauer JW, Collins AGE, Ivry RB. Fundamental processes in sensorimotor learning: Reasoning, refinement, and retrieval. eLife 2024; 13:e91839. [PMID: 39087986 PMCID: PMC11293869 DOI: 10.7554/elife.91839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2023] [Accepted: 07/22/2024] [Indexed: 08/02/2024] Open
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Motor learning is often viewed as a unitary process that operates outside of conscious awareness. This perspective has led to the development of sophisticated models designed to elucidate the mechanisms of implicit sensorimotor learning. In this review, we argue for a broader perspective, emphasizing the contribution of explicit strategies to sensorimotor learning tasks. Furthermore, we propose a theoretical framework for motor learning that consists of three fundamental processes: reasoning, the process of understanding action-outcome relationships; refinement, the process of optimizing sensorimotor and cognitive parameters to achieve motor goals; and retrieval, the process of inferring the context and recalling a control policy. We anticipate that this '3R' framework for understanding how complex movements are learned will open exciting avenues for future research at the intersection between cognition and action.
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- Jonathan S Tsay
- Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburghUnited States
- Neuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgUnited States
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- School of Kinesiology, University of British ColumbiaVancouverCanada
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- Department of Psychology, Princeton UniversityPrincetonUnited States
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimoreUnited States
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- Department of Psychology, University of California BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimoreUnited States
- Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimoreUnited States
- Santa Fe InstituteSanta FeUnited States
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- Department of Psychology, University of California BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
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- Department of Psychology, University of California BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
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Müller C, Bendixen A, Kopiske K. Sensorimotor adaptation impedes perturbation detection in grasping. Psychon Bull Rev 2024:10.3758/s13423-024-02543-y. [PMID: 39048890 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-024-02543-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/24/2024] [Indexed: 07/27/2024]
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Humans achieve skilled actions by continuously correcting for motor errors or perceptual misjudgments, a process called sensorimotor adaptation. This can occur with the actor both detecting (explicitly) and not detecting the error (implicitly). We investigated how the magnitude of a perturbation and the corresponding error signal each contribute to the detection of a size perturbation during interaction with real-world objects. Participants grasped cuboids of different lengths in a mirror-setup allowing us to present different sizes for seen and felt cuboids, respectively. Visuo-haptic size mismatches (perturbations) were introduced either abruptly or followed a sinusoidal schedule. These schedules dissociated the error signal from the visuo-haptic mismatch: Participants could fully adapt their grip and reduce the error when a perturbation was introduced abruptly and then stayed the same, but not with a constantly changing sinusoidal perturbation. We compared participants' performance in a two-alternative forced choice (2AFC) task where participants judged these mismatches, and modelled error-correction in grasping movements by looking at changes in maximum grip apertures, measured using motion tracking. We found similar mismatch-detection performance with sinusoidal perturbation schedules and the first trial after an abrupt change, but decreasing performance over further trials for the latter. This is consistent with the idea that reduced error signals following adaptation make it harder to detect perturbations. Error-correction parameters indicated stronger error-correction in abruptly introduced perturbations. However, we saw no correlation between error-correction and overall mismatch-detection performance. This emphasizes the distinct contributions of the perturbation magnitude and the error signal in helping participants detect sensory perturbations.
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- Carl Müller
- Cognitive Systems Lab, Institute of Physics, Chemnitz University of Technology, 09126, Chemnitz, Germany.
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- Cognitive Systems Lab, Institute of Physics, Chemnitz University of Technology, 09126, Chemnitz, Germany
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- Cognitive Systems Lab, Institute of Physics, Chemnitz University of Technology, 09126, Chemnitz, Germany
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Zhang Z, Wang H, Zhang T, Nie Z, Wei K. Perceptual error based on Bayesian cue combination drives implicit motor adaptation. eLife 2024; 13:RP94608. [PMID: 38963410 PMCID: PMC11223768 DOI: 10.7554/elife.94608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/05/2024] Open
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The sensorimotor system can recalibrate itself without our conscious awareness, a type of procedural learning whose computational mechanism remains undefined. Recent findings on implicit motor adaptation, such as over-learning from small perturbations and fast saturation for increasing perturbation size, challenge existing theories based on sensory errors. We argue that perceptual error, arising from the optimal combination of movement-related cues, is the primary driver of implicit adaptation. Central to our theory is the increasing sensory uncertainty of visual cues with increasing perturbations, which was validated through perceptual psychophysics (Experiment 1). Our theory predicts the learning dynamics of implicit adaptation across a spectrum of perturbation sizes on a trial-by-trial basis (Experiment 2). It explains proprioception changes and their relation to visual perturbation (Experiment 3). By modulating visual uncertainty in perturbation, we induced unique adaptation responses in line with our model predictions (Experiment 4). Overall, our perceptual error framework outperforms existing models based on sensory errors, suggesting that perceptual error in locating one's effector, supported by Bayesian cue integration, underpins the sensorimotor system's implicit adaptation.
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- Zhaoran Zhang
- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking UniversityBeijingChina
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking UniversityBeijingChina
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking UniversityBeijingChina
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking UniversityBeijingChina
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking UniversityBeijingChina
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental HealthBeijingChina
- Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking UniversityBeijingChina
- National Key Laboratory of General Artificial IntelligenceBeijingChina
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Chen Y, Abram SJ, Ivry RB, Tsay JS. Motor adaptation is reduced by symbolic compared to sensory feedback. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.06.28.601293. [PMID: 39005305 PMCID: PMC11244888 DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.28.601293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/16/2024]
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Motor adaptation - the process of reducing motor errors through feedback and practice - is an essential feature of human competence, allowing us to move accurately in dynamic and novel environments. Adaptation typically results from sensory feedback, with most learning driven by visual and proprioceptive feedback that arises with the movement. In humans, motor adaptation can also be driven by symbolic feedback. In the present study, we examine how implicit and explicit components of motor adaptation are modulated by symbolic feedback. We conducted three reaching experiments involving over 400 human participants to compare sensory and symbolic feedback using a task in which both types of learning processes could be operative (Experiment 1) or tasks in which learning was expected to be limited to only an explicit process (Experiments 2 and 3). Adaptation with symbolic feedback was dominated by explicit strategy use, with minimal evidence of implicit recalibration. Even when matched in terms of information content, adaptation to rotational and mirror reversal perturbations was slower in response to symbolic feedback compared to sensory feedback. Our results suggest that the abstract and indirect nature of symbolic feedback disrupts strategic reasoning and/or refinement, deepening our understanding of how feedback type influences the mechanisms of sensorimotor learning.
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- Yifei Chen
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley
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Choi K, Choe Y, Park H. Reinforcement Learning May Demystify the Limited Human Motor Learning Efficacy Due to Visual-Proprioceptive Mismatch. Int J Neural Syst 2024; 34:2450037. [PMID: 38655914 DOI: 10.1142/s0129065724500370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/26/2024]
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Vision and proprioception have fundamental sensory mismatches in delivering locational information, and such mismatches are critical factors limiting the efficacy of motor learning. However, it is still not clear how and to what extent this mismatch limits motor learning outcomes. To further the understanding of the effect of sensory mismatch on motor learning outcomes, a reinforcement learning algorithm and the simplified biomechanical elbow joint model were employed to mimic the motor learning process in a computational environment. By applying a reinforcement learning algorithm to the motor learning of elbow joint flexion task, simulation results successfully explained how visual-proprioceptive mismatch limits motor learning outcomes in terms of motor control accuracy and task completion speed. The larger the perceived angular offset between the two sensory modalities, the lower the motor control accuracy. Also, the more similar the peak reward amplitude of the two sensory modalities, the lower the motor control accuracy. In addition, simulation results suggest that insufficient exploration rate limits task completion speed, and excessive exploration rate limits motor control accuracy. Such a speed-accuracy trade-off shows that a moderate exploration rate could serve as another important factor in motor learning.
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- Kyungrak Choi
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea
- Department of Intelligent Precision Healthcare Convergence, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea
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Jacobsen NA, Ferris DP. Exploring Electrocortical Signatures of Gait Adaptation: Differential Neural Dynamics in Slow and Fast Gait Adapters. eNeuro 2024; 11:ENEURO.0515-23.2024. [PMID: 38871456 PMCID: PMC11242882 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0515-23.2024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2023] [Revised: 05/13/2024] [Accepted: 05/27/2024] [Indexed: 06/15/2024] Open
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Individuals exhibit significant variability in their ability to adapt locomotor skills, with some adapting quickly and others more slowly. Differences in brain activity likely contribute to this variability, but direct neural evidence is lacking. We investigated individual differences in electrocortical activity that led to faster locomotor adaptation rates. We recorded high-density electroencephalography while young, neurotypical adults adapted their walking on a split-belt treadmill and grouped them based on how quickly they restored their gait symmetry. Results revealed unique spectral signatures within the posterior parietal, bilateral sensorimotor, and right visual cortices that differ between fast and slow adapters. Specifically, fast adapters exhibited lower alpha power in the posterior parietal and right visual cortices during early adaptation, associated with quicker attainment of steady-state step length symmetry. Decreased posterior parietal alpha may reflect enhanced spatial attention, sensory integration, and movement planning to facilitate faster locomotor adaptation. Conversely, slow adapters displayed greater alpha and beta power in the right visual cortex during late adaptation, suggesting potential differences in visuospatial processing. Additionally, fast adapters demonstrated reduced spectral power in the bilateral sensorimotor cortices compared with slow adapters, particularly in the theta band, which may suggest variations in perception of the split-belt perturbation. These findings suggest that alpha and beta oscillations in the posterior parietal and visual cortices and theta oscillations in the sensorimotor cortex are related to the rate of gait adaptation.
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- Noelle A Jacobsen
- J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611-6131
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- J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611-6131
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Avraham G, Ivry RB. Interference underlies attenuation upon relearning in sensorimotor adaptation. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.05.27.596118. [PMID: 38853972 PMCID: PMC11160603 DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.27.596118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2024]
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Savings refers to the gain in performance upon relearning a task. In sensorimotor adaptation, savings is tested by having participants adapt to perturbed feedback and, following a washout block during which the system resets to baseline, presenting the same perturbation again. While savings has been observed with these tasks, we have shown that the contribution from implicit sensorimotor adaptation, a process that uses sensory prediction errors to recalibrate the sensorimotor map, is actually attenuated upon relearning (Avraham et al., 2021). In the present study, we test the hypothesis that this attenuation is due to interference arising from the washout block, and more generally, from experience with a different relationship between the movement and the feedback. In standard adaptation studies, removing the perturbation at the start of the washout block results in a salient error signal in the opposite direction to that observed during learning. As a starting point, we replicated the finding that implicit adaptation is attenuated following a washout period in which the feedback now signals a salient opposite error. When we eliminated visual feedback during washout, implicit adaptation was no longer attenuated upon relearning, consistent with the interference hypothesis. Next, we eliminated the salient error during washout by gradually decreasing the perturbation, creating a scenario in which the perceived errors fell within the range associated with motor noise. Nonetheless, attenuation was still prominent. Inspired by this observation, we tested participants with an extended experience with veridical feedback during an initial baseline phase and found that this was sufficient to cause robust attenuation of implicit adaptation during the first exposure to the perturbation. This effect was context-specific: It did not generalize to movements that were not associated with the interfering feedback. Taken together, these results show that the implicit sensorimotor adaptation system is highly sensitive to memory interference from a recent experience with a discrepant action-outcome contingency.
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- Guy Avraham
- Department of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Will M, Stenner MP. Imprecise perception of hand position during early motor adaptation. J Neurophysiol 2024; 131:1200-1212. [PMID: 38718415 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00447.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2023] [Revised: 04/29/2024] [Accepted: 05/04/2024] [Indexed: 06/09/2024] Open
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Localizing one's body parts is important for movement control and motor learning. Recent studies have shown that the precision with which people localize their hand places constraints on motor adaptation. Although these studies have assumed that hand localization remains equally precise across learning, we show that precision decreases rapidly during early motor learning. In three experiments, healthy young participants (n = 92) repeatedly adapted to a 45° visuomotor rotation for a cycle of two to four reaches, followed by a cycle of two to four reaches with veridical feedback. Participants either used an aiming strategy that fully compensated for the rotation (experiment 1), or always aimed directly at the target, so that adaptation was implicit (experiment 2). We omitted visual feedback for the last reach of each cycle, after which participants localized their unseen hand. We observed an increase in the variability of angular localization errors when subjects used a strategy to counter the visuomotor rotation (experiment 1). This decrease in precision was less pronounced in the absence of reaiming (experiment 2), and when subjects knew that they would have to localize their hand on the upcoming trial, and could thus focus on hand position (experiment 3). We propose that strategic reaiming decreases the precision of perceived hand position, possibly due to attention to vision rather than proprioception. We discuss how these dynamics in precision during early motor learning could impact on motor control and shape the interplay between implicit and strategy-based motor adaptation.NEW & NOTEWORTHY Recent studies indicate that the precision with which people localize their hand limits implicit visuomotor learning. We found that localization precision is not static, but decreases early during learning. This decrease is pronounced when people apply a reaiming strategy to compensate for a visuomotor perturbation and is partly resistant to allocation of attention to the hand. We propose that these dynamics in position sense during learning may influence how implicit and strategy-based motor adaption interact.
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- Matthias Will
- Department of Neurology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
- Department of Behavioral Neurology, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
- Department of Behavioral Neurology, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany
- Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences, Magdeburg, Germany
- Center for Intervention and Research on adaptive and maladaptive brain Circuits underlying mental health (CIRC), Jena-Magdeburg-Halle, Germany
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Tsay J, Parvin DE, Dang KV, Stover AR, Ivry RB, Morehead JR. Implicit Adaptation Is Modulated by the Relevance of Feedback. J Cogn Neurosci 2024; 36:1206-1220. [PMID: 38579248 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_02160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/07/2024]
Abstract
Given that informative and relevant feedback in the real world is often intertwined with distracting and irrelevant feedback, we asked how the relevancy of visual feedback impacts implicit sensorimotor adaptation. To tackle this question, we presented multiple cursors as visual feedback in a center-out reaching task and varied the task relevance of these cursors. In other words, participants were instructed to hit a target with a specific task-relevant cursor, while ignoring the other cursors. In Experiment 1, we found that reach aftereffects were attenuated by the mere presence of distracting cursors, compared with reach aftereffects in response to a single task-relevant cursor. The degree of attenuation did not depend on the position of the distracting cursors. In Experiment 2, we examined the interaction between task relevance and attention. Participants were asked to adapt to a task-relevant cursor/target pair, while ignoring the task-irrelevant cursor/target pair. Critically, we jittered the location of the relevant and irrelevant target in an uncorrelated manner, allowing us to index attention via how well participants tracked the position of target. We found that participants who were better at tracking the task-relevant target/cursor pair showed greater aftereffects, and interestingly, the same correlation applied to the task-irrelevant target/cursor pair. Together, these results highlight a novel role of task relevancy on modulating implicit adaptation, perhaps by giving greater attention to informative sources of feedback, increasing the saliency of the sensory prediction error.
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- University of California, Berkeley
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, Berkeley, CA
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- University of California, Berkeley
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, Berkeley, CA
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- University of California, Berkeley
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, Berkeley, CA
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- University of California, Berkeley
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, Berkeley, CA
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Rock CG, Kwak ST, Luo A, Yang X, Yun K, Chang YH. Realizing the gravity of the simulation: adaptation to simulated hypogravity leads to altered predictive control. Front Physiol 2024; 15:1397016. [PMID: 38854629 PMCID: PMC11157081 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2024.1397016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2024] [Accepted: 05/06/2024] [Indexed: 06/11/2024] Open
Abstract
Accurate predictive abilities are important for a wide variety of animal behaviors. Inherent to many of these predictions is an understanding of the physics that underlie the behavior. Humans are specifically attuned to the physics on Earth but can learn to move in other environments (e.g., the surface of the Moon). However, the adjustments made to their physics-based predictions in the face of altered gravity are not fully understood. The current study aimed to characterize the locomotor adaptation to a novel paradigm for simulated reduced gravity. We hypothesized that exposure to simulated hypogravity would result in updated predictions of gravity-based movement. Twenty participants took part in a protocol that had them perform vertically targeted countermovement jumps before (PRE), during, and after (POST) a physical simulation of hypogravity. Jumping in simulated hypogravity had different neuromechanics from the PRE condition, with reduced ground impulses (p ≤ .009) and muscle activity prior to the time of landing (i.e., preactivation; p ≤ .016). In the 1 g POST condition, muscle preactivation remained reduced (p ≤ .033) and was delayed (p ≤ .008) by up to 33% for most muscles of the triceps surae, reflecting an expectation of hypogravity. The aftereffects in muscle preactivation, along with little-to-no change in muscle dynamics during ground contact, point to a neuromechanical adaptation that affects predictive, feed-forward systems over feedback systems. As such, we conclude that the neural representation, or internal model, of gravity is updated after exposure to simulated hypogravity.
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- Chase G. Rock
- Comparative Neuromechanics Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- Comparative Neuromechanics Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
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Moore RT, Piitz MA, Singh N, Dukelow SP, Cluff T. The independence of impairments in proprioception and visuomotor adaptation after stroke. J Neuroeng Rehabil 2024; 21:81. [PMID: 38762552 PMCID: PMC11102216 DOI: 10.1186/s12984-024-01360-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2023] [Accepted: 04/18/2024] [Indexed: 05/20/2024] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Proprioceptive impairments are common after stroke and are associated with worse motor recovery and poor rehabilitation outcomes. Motor learning may also be an important factor in motor recovery, and some evidence in healthy adults suggests that reduced proprioceptive function is associated with reductions in motor learning. It is unclear how impairments in proprioception and motor learning relate after stroke. Here we used robotics and a traditional clinical assessment to examine the link between impairments in proprioception after stroke and a type of motor learning known as visuomotor adaptation. METHODS We recruited participants with first-time unilateral stroke and controls matched for overall age and sex. Proprioceptive impairments in the more affected arm were assessed using robotic arm position- (APM) and movement-matching (AMM) tasks. We also assessed proprioceptive impairments using a clinical scale (Thumb Localization Test; TLT). Visuomotor adaptation was assessed using a task that systematically rotated hand cursor feedback during reaching movements (VMR). We quantified how much participants adapted to the disturbance and how many trials they took to adapt to the same levels as controls. Spearman's rho was used to examine the relationship between proprioception, assessed using robotics and the TLT, and visuomotor adaptation. Data from healthy adults were used to identify participants with stroke who were impaired in proprioception and visuomotor adaptation. The independence of impairments in proprioception and adaptation were examined using Fisher's exact tests. RESULTS Impairments in proprioception (58.3%) and adaptation (52.1%) were common in participants with stroke (n = 48; 2.10% acute, 70.8% subacute, 27.1% chronic stroke). Performance on the APM task, AMM task, and TLT scores correlated weakly with measures of visuomotor adaptation. Fisher's exact tests demonstrated that impairments in proprioception, assessed using robotics and the TLT, were independent from impairments in visuomotor adaptation in our sample. CONCLUSION Our results suggest impairments in proprioception may be independent from impairments in visuomotor adaptation after stroke. Further studies are needed to understand factors that influence the relationship between motor learning, proprioception and other rehabilitation outcomes throughout stroke recovery.
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- Robert T Moore
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Dr NW, Calgary, AB, Canada
- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Dr NW, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Dr NW, Calgary, AB, Canada
- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Dr NW, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Dr NW, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Dr NW, Calgary, AB, Canada
- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Dr NW, Calgary, AB, Canada
- Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr NW, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Dr NW, Calgary, AB, Canada.
- Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr NW, Calgary, AB, Canada.
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Ziman M, Tsay JS. The way we respond influences what we ultimately perceive. J Neurophysiol 2024; 131:948-949. [PMID: 38690997 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00162.2024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2024] [Revised: 04/29/2024] [Accepted: 04/29/2024] [Indexed: 05/03/2024] Open
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- Mabel Ziman
- MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Tsay JS, Asmerian H, Germine LT, Wilmer J, Ivry RB, Nakayama K. Large-scale citizen science reveals predictors of sensorimotor adaptation. Nat Hum Behav 2024; 8:510-525. [PMID: 38291127 DOI: 10.1038/s41562-023-01798-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2023] [Accepted: 12/04/2023] [Indexed: 02/01/2024]
Abstract
Sensorimotor adaptation is essential for keeping our movements well calibrated in response to changes in the body and environment. For over a century, researchers have studied sensorimotor adaptation in laboratory settings that typically involve small sample sizes. While this approach has proved useful for characterizing different learning processes, laboratory studies are not well suited for exploring the myriad of factors that may modulate human performance. Here, using a citizen science website, we collected over 2,000 sessions of data on a visuomotor rotation task. This unique dataset has allowed us to replicate, reconcile and challenge classic findings in the learning and memory literature, as well as discover unappreciated demographic constraints associated with implicit and explicit processes that support sensorimotor adaptation. More generally, this study exemplifies how a large-scale exploratory approach can complement traditional hypothesis-driven laboratory research in advancing sensorimotor neuroscience.
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- Jonathan S Tsay
- Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Institute for Technology in Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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Chiyohara S, Furukawa JI, Noda T, Morimoto J, Imamizu H. Proprioceptive short-term memory in passive motor learning. Sci Rep 2023; 13:20826. [PMID: 38012253 PMCID: PMC10682388 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-48101-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2023] [Accepted: 11/22/2023] [Indexed: 11/29/2023] Open
Abstract
A physical trainer often physically guides a learner's limbs to teach an ideal movement, giving the learner proprioceptive information about the movement to be reproduced later. This instruction requires the learner to perceive kinesthetic information and store the instructed information temporarily. Therefore, (1) proprioceptive acuity to accurately perceive the taught kinesthetics and (2) short-term memory to store the perceived information are two critical functions for reproducing the taught movement. While the importance of proprioceptive acuity and short-term memory has been suggested for active motor learning, little is known about passive motor learning. Twenty-one healthy adults (mean age 25.6 years, range 19-38 years) participated in this study to investigate whether individual learning efficiency in passively guided learning is related to these two functions. Consequently, learning efficiency was significantly associated with short-term memory capacity. In particular, individuals who could recall older sensory stimuli showed better learning efficiency. However, no significant relationship was observed between learning efficiency and proprioceptive acuity. A causal graph model found a direct influence of memory on learning and an indirect effect of proprioceptive acuity on learning via memory. Our findings suggest the importance of a learner's short-term memory for effective passive motor learning.
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- Shinya Chiyohara
- Brain Information Communication Research Laboratory Group, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Keihanna Science City, Kyoto, 619-0288, Japan
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- Brain Information Communication Research Laboratory Group, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Keihanna Science City, Kyoto, 619-0288, Japan
- Man-Machine Collaboration Research Team, Guardian Robot Project, RIKEN, Kyoto, Japan
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- Brain Information Communication Research Laboratory Group, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Keihanna Science City, Kyoto, 619-0288, Japan
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- Brain Information Communication Research Laboratory Group, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Keihanna Science City, Kyoto, 619-0288, Japan.
- Man-Machine Collaboration Research Team, Guardian Robot Project, RIKEN, Kyoto, Japan.
- Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
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- Brain Information Communication Research Laboratory Group, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Keihanna Science City, Kyoto, 619-0288, Japan
- Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
- Research Into Artifacts, Center for Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan
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Langenberg M, Bayer M, Zimmermann E. Active production and passive observation of hand movements shift visual hand location. Sci Rep 2023; 13:20645. [PMID: 38001114 PMCID: PMC10673826 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-47557-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2023] [Accepted: 11/15/2023] [Indexed: 11/26/2023] Open
Abstract
Which factors influence the perception of our hand location is a matter of current debate. Here, we test if sensorimotor processing contributes to the perception of hand location. We developed a novel visuomotor adaptation procedure to measure whether actively performing hand movements or passively observing them, influences visual perception of hand location. Participants had to point with a handheld controller to a briefly presented visual target. When they reached the remembered position of the target, the controller presented a tactile buzz. In adaptation trials, the tactile buzz was presented when the hand had not yet reached the target. Over the course of trials, participants adapted to the manipulation and pointed to a location between the visual target and the tactile buzz. We measured the perceived location of the hand by flashing a virtual pair of left and right hands before and after adaptation. Participants had to judge which hand they perceived closer to their body on the fronto-parallel plane. After adaptation, they judged the right hand, that corresponded to the hand used during adaptation, to be located further away from the body. We conclude that sensorimotor prediction of the consequences of hand movements shape sensory processing of hand location.
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- Maryvonne Langenberg
- Institute for Experimental Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstr. 1, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute for Experimental Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstr. 1, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute for Experimental Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstr. 1, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Matsuda N, Abe MO. Implicit motor adaptation driven by intermittent and invariant errors. Exp Brain Res 2023:10.1007/s00221-023-06667-w. [PMID: 37468766 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-023-06667-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2022] [Accepted: 07/10/2023] [Indexed: 07/21/2023]
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Our movements and movement outcomes are disturbed by environmental changes, leading to errors. During ongoing environmental changes, people should correct their movement using sensory feedback. However, when the changes are momentary, corrections based on sensory feedback are undesirable. Previous studies have suggested that implicit motor adaptation takes place despite the realization that the presented visual feedback should be ignored. Although these studies created experimental situations in which participants had to continuously ignore the presented visual feedback, in daily lives, people intermittently encounter opportunities to ignore sensory feedback. In this study, by intermittently presenting visual error clamp feedback, always offset from a target by 16° counterclockwise, regardless of the actual movement in a reaching experiment, we provided intermittent opportunities to ignore the visual feedback. We found that in the trials conducted immediately after presenting the visual error clamp feedback, reaching movements shifted in the direction opposite to the feedback, which is a hallmark of implicit motor adaptation. Moreover, the magnitude of the shift was significantly correlated with the rate of motor adaptation to gradual changes in the environment. Therefore, the results suggest that people unintentionally react to momentary environmental changes, which should be ignored. In addition, the sensitivity to momentary changes is greater in people who can quickly adapt to gradual environmental changes.
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- Naoyoshi Matsuda
- Graduate School of Education, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Faculty of Education, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
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Fassold ME, Locke SM, Landy MS. Feeling lucky? prospective and retrospective cues for sensorimotor confidence. PLoS Comput Biol 2023; 19:e1010740. [PMID: 37363929 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2022] [Accepted: 06/08/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023] Open
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On a daily basis, humans interact with the outside world using judgments of sensorimotor confidence, constantly evaluating our actions for success. We ask, what sensory and motor-execution cues are used in making these judgements and when are they available? Two sources of temporally distinct information are prospective cues, available prior to the action (e.g., knowledge of motor noise and past performance), and retrospective cues specific to the action itself (e.g., proprioceptive measurements). We investigated the use of these two cues in two tasks, a secondary motor-awareness task and a main task in which participants reached toward a visual target with an unseen hand and then made a continuous judgment of confidence about the success of the reach. Confidence was reported by setting the size of a circle centered on the reach-target location, where a larger circle reflects lower confidence. Points were awarded if the confidence circle enclosed the true endpoint, with fewer points returned for larger circles. This incentivized accurate reaches and attentive reporting to maximize the score. We compared three Bayesian-inference models of sensorimotor confidence based on either prospective cues, retrospective cues, or both sources of information to maximize expected gain (i.e., an ideal-performance model). Our findings showed two distinct strategies: participants either performed as ideal observers, using both prospective and retrospective cues to make the confidence judgment, or relied solely on prospective information, ignoring retrospective cues. Thus, participants can make use of retrospective cues, evidenced by the behavior observed in our motor-awareness task, but these cues are not always included in the computation of sensorimotor confidence.
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- Marissa E Fassold
- Dept. of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs, Département d'Études Cognitives, École Normale Supérieure, PSL University, CNRS, Paris, France
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- Dept. of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America
- Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America
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Wood JM, Morton SM, Kim HE. A reliable and efficient adaptive Bayesian method to assess static lower limb position sense. J Neurosci Methods 2023; 392:109875. [PMID: 37150304 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2023.109875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2023] [Revised: 04/14/2023] [Accepted: 05/04/2023] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Lower limb proprioception is critical for maintaining stability during gait and may impact how individuals modify their movements in response to changes in the environment and body state, a process termed "sensorimotor adaptation". However, the connection between lower limb proprioception and sensorimotor adaptation during human gait has not been established. We suspect this gap is due in part to the lack of reliable, efficient methods to assess global lower limb proprioception in an ecologically valid context. NEW METHOD We assessed static lower limb proprioception using an alternative forced choice task, administered twice to determine test-retest reliability. Participants stood on a dual-belt treadmill which passively moved one limb to stimulus locations selected by a Bayesian adaptive algorithm. At the stimulus locations, participants judged relative foot positions and the algorithm estimated the point of subjective equality (PSE) and the uncertainty of lower limb proprioception. RESULTS Using the Bland-Altman method, combined with Bayesian statistics, we found that both the PSE and uncertainty estimates had good reliability. COMPARISON WITH EXISTING METHOD(S) Current methods assessing static lower limb proprioception do so within a single joint, in non-weight bearing positions, and rely heavily on memory. One exception assessed static lower limb proprioception in standing but did not measure reliability and contained confounds impacting participants' judgments, which we experimentally controlled here. CONCLUSIONS This efficient and reliable method assessing lower limb proprioception will aid future mechanistic understanding of locomotor adaptation and serve as a useful tool for basic and clinical researchers studying balance and falls.
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- Jonathan M Wood
- Department of Physical Therapy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711, United States; Biomechanics and Movement Sciences Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711, United States.
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- Department of Physical Therapy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711, United States; Biomechanics and Movement Sciences Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711, United States
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- Department of Physical Therapy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711, United States; Biomechanics and Movement Sciences Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711, United States; Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, United States; School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Wood JM, Morton SM, Kim HE. A reliable and efficient adaptive Bayesian method to assess static lower limb position sense. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.01.23.525102. [PMID: 36747823 PMCID: PMC9900742 DOI: 10.1101/2023.01.23.525102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
Abstract
Background Lower limb proprioception is critical for maintaining stability during gait and may impact how individuals modify their movements in response to changes in the environment and body state, a process termed "sensorimotor adaptation". However, the connection between lower limb proprioception and sensorimotor adaptation during human gait has not been established. We suspect this gap is due in part to the lack of reliable, efficient methods to assess global lower limb proprioception in an ecologically valid context. New Method We assessed static lower limb proprioception using an alternative forced choice task, administered twice to determine test-retest reliability. Participants stood on a dual-belt treadmill which passively moved one limb to stimulus locations selected by a Bayesian adaptive algorithm. At the stimulus locations, participants judged relative foot positions and the algorithm estimated the point of subjective equality (PSE) and the uncertainty of lower limb proprioception. Results Using the Bland-Altman method, combined with Bayesian statistics, we found that both the PSE and uncertainty estimates had good reliability. Comparison with Existing Methods Current methods assessing static lower limb proprioception do so within a single joint, in non-weight bearing positions, and rely heavily on memory. One exception assessed static lower limb proprioception in standing but did not measure reliability and contained confounds impacting participants' judgments, which we experimentally controlled here. Conclusions This efficient and reliable method assessing lower limb proprioception will aid future mechanistic understanding of locomotor adaptation and serve as a useful tool for basic and clinical researchers studying balance and falls.
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- Jonathan M Wood
- Department of Physical Therapy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711, United States
- Biomechanics and Movement Sciences Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711, United States
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- Department of Physical Therapy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711, United States
- Biomechanics and Movement Sciences Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711, United States
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- Department of Physical Therapy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711, United States
- Biomechanics and Movement Sciences Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711, United States
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, United States
- School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Tsay JS, Tan S, Chu MA, Ivry RB, Cooper EA. Low Vision Impairs Implicit Sensorimotor Adaptation in Response to Small Errors, But Not Large Errors. J Cogn Neurosci 2023; 35:736-748. [PMID: 36724396 PMCID: PMC10512469 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
Abstract
Successful goal-directed actions require constant fine-tuning of the motor system. This fine-tuning is thought to rely on an implicit adaptation process that is driven by sensory prediction errors (e.g., where you see your hand after reaching vs. where you expected it to be). Individuals with low vision experience challenges with visuomotor control, but whether low vision disrupts motor adaptation is unknown. To explore this question, we assessed individuals with low vision and matched controls with normal vision on a visuomotor task designed to isolate implicit adaptation. We found that low vision was associated with attenuated implicit adaptation only for small visual errors, but not for large visual errors. This result highlights important constraints underlying how low-fidelity visual information is processed by the sensorimotor system to enable successful implicit adaptation.
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Modchalingam S, Ciccone M, D'Amario S, 't Hart BM, Henriques DYP. Adapting to visuomotor rotations in stepped increments increases implicit motor learning. Sci Rep 2023; 13:5022. [PMID: 36977740 PMCID: PMC10050328 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-32068-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2022] [Accepted: 03/22/2023] [Indexed: 03/30/2023] Open
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Human motor adaptation relies on both explicit conscious strategies and implicit unconscious updating of internal models to correct motor errors. Implicit adaptation is powerful, requiring less preparation time before executing adapted movements, but recent work suggests it is limited to some absolute magnitude regardless of the size of a visuomotor perturbation when the perturbation is introduced abruptly. It is commonly assumed that gradually introducing a perturbation should lead to improved implicit learning beyond this limit, but outcomes are conflicting. We tested whether introducing a perturbation in two distinct gradual methods can overcome the apparent limit and explain past conflicting findings. We found that gradually introducing a perturbation in a stepped manner, where participants were given time to adapt to each partial step before being introduced to a larger partial step, led to ~ 80% higher implicit aftereffects of learning, but introducing it in a ramped manner, where participants adapted larger rotations on each subsequent reach, did not. Our results clearly show that gradual introduction of a perturbation can lead to substantially larger implicit adaptation, as well as identify the type of introduction that is necessary to do so.
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- Shanaathanan Modchalingam
- School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada.
- Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada.
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- School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada
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- School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada
- Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada
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- School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada
- Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada
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Matsuda N, Abe MO. Error Size Shape Relationships between Motor Variability and Implicit Motor Adaptation. BIOLOGY 2023; 12:biology12030404. [PMID: 36979096 PMCID: PMC10045141 DOI: 10.3390/biology12030404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2023] [Accepted: 03/02/2023] [Indexed: 03/08/2023]
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Previous studies have demonstrated the effects of motor variability on motor adaptation. However, their findings have been inconsistent, suggesting that various factors affect the relationship between motor variability and adaptation. This study focused on the size of errors driving motor adaptation as one of the factors and examined the relationship between different error sizes. Thirty-one healthy young adults participated in a visuomotor task in which they made fast-reaching movements toward a target. Motor variability was measured in the baseline phase when a veridical feedback cursor was presented. In the adaptation phase, the feedback cursor was sometimes not reflected in the hand position and deviated from the target by 0°, 3°, 6°, or 12° counterclockwise or clockwise (i.e., error-clamp feedback). Movements during trials following trials with error-clamp feedback were measured to quantify implicit adaptation. Implicit adaptation was driven by errors presented through error-clamp feedback. Moreover, motor variability significantly correlated with implicit adaptation driven by a 12° error. The results suggested that motor variability accelerates implicit adaptation when a larger error occurs. As such a trend was not observed when smaller errors occurred, the relationship between motor variability and motor adaptation might have been affected by the error size driving implicit adaptation.
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- Naoyoshi Matsuda
- Graduate School of Education, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0811, Japan
- Correspondence: (N.M.); (M.O.A.); Tel.: +81-11-706-5442 (M.O.A.)
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- Faculty of Education, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0811, Japan
- Correspondence: (N.M.); (M.O.A.); Tel.: +81-11-706-5442 (M.O.A.)
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Bao S, Lei Y. Memory decay and generalization following distinct motor learning mechanisms. J Neurophysiol 2022; 128:1534-1545. [PMID: 36321731 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00105.2022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Motor skill learning is considered to arise out of contributions from multiple learning mechanisms, including error-based learning (EBL), use-dependent learning (UDL), and reinforcement learning (RL). These learning mechanisms exhibit dissociable roles and engage different neural circuits during skill acquisition. However, it remains largely unknown how a newly formed motor memory acquired through each learning mechanism decays over time and whether distinct learning mechanisms produce different generalization patterns. Here, we used variants of reaching paradigms that dissociated these learning mechanisms to examine the time course of memory decay following each learning and the generalization patterns of each learning. We found that motor memories acquired through these learning mechanisms decayed as a function of time. Notably, 15 min, 6 h, and 24 h after acquisition, the memory of EBL decayed much greater than that of RL. The memory acquired through UDL faded away within a few minutes. Motor memories formed through EBL and RL for given movement directions generalized to untrained movement directions, with the generalization of EBL being greater than that of RL. In contrast, motor memory of UDL could not generalize to untrained movement directions. These results suggest that distinct learning mechanisms exhibit different patterns of memory decay and generalization.NEW & NOTEWORTHY Motor skill learning is likely to involve error-based learning, use-dependent plasticity, and operant reinforcement. Here, we showed that these dissociable learning mechanisms exhibited distinct patterns of memory decay and generalization. With a better understanding of the characteristics of these learning mechanisms, it becomes possible to regulate each learning process separately to improve neurological rehabilitation.
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- Shancheng Bao
- Department of Kinesiology & Sport Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
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- Department of Kinesiology & Sport Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
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Tsay JS, Kim HE, Saxena A, Parvin DE, Verstynen T, Ivry RB. Dissociable use-dependent processes for volitional goal-directed reaching. Proc Biol Sci 2022; 289:20220415. [PMID: 35473382 PMCID: PMC9043705 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.0415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2022] [Accepted: 03/23/2022] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Repetition of specific movement biases subsequent actions towards the practiced movement, a phenomenon known as use-dependent learning (UDL). Recent experiments that impose strict constraints on planning time have revealed two sources of use-dependent biases, one arising from dynamic changes occurring during motor planning and another reflecting a stable shift in motor execution. Here, we used a distributional analysis to examine the contribution of these biases in reaching. To create the conditions for UDL, the target appeared at a designated 'frequent' location on most trials, and at one of six 'rare' locations on other trials. Strikingly, the heading angles were bimodally distributed, with peaks at both frequent and rare target locations. Despite having no constraints on planning time, participants exhibited a robust bias towards the frequent target when movements were self-initiated quickly, the signature of a planning bias; notably, the peak near the rare target was shifted in the frequently practiced direction, the signature of an execution bias. Furthermore, these execution biases were not only replicated in a delayed-response task but were also insensitive to reward. Taken together, these results extend our understanding of how volitional movements are influenced by recent experience.
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- Jonathan S. Tsay
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, USA
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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- Department of Physical Therapy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, USA
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, USA
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, USA
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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Sozzi S, Schieppati M. Balance Adaptation While Standing on a Compliant Base Depends on the Current Sensory Condition in Healthy Young Adults. Front Hum Neurosci 2022; 16:839799. [PMID: 35399363 PMCID: PMC8989851 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.839799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2021] [Accepted: 02/03/2022] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Background Several investigations have addressed the process of balance adaptation to external perturbations. The adaptation during unperturbed stance has received little attention. Further, whether the current sensory conditions affect the adaptation rate has not been established. We have addressed the role of vision and haptic feedback on adaptation while standing on foam. Methods In 22 young subjects, the analysis of geometric (path length and sway area) and spectral variables (median frequency and mean level of both total spectrum and selected frequency windows) of the oscillation of the centre of feet pressure (CoP) identified the effects of vision, light-touch (LT) or both in the anteroposterior (AP) and mediolateral (ML) direction over 8 consecutive 90 s standing trials. Results Adaptation was obvious without vision (eyes closed; EC) and tenuous with vision (eyes open; EO). With trial repetition, path length and median frequency diminished with EC (p < 0.001) while sway area and mean level of the spectrum increased (p < 0.001). The low- and high-frequency range of the spectrum increased and decreased in AP and ML directions, respectively. Touch compared to no-touch enhanced the rate of increase of the low-frequency power (p < 0.05). Spectral differences in distinct sensory conditions persisted after adaptation. Conclusion Balance adaptation occurs during standing on foam. Adaptation leads to a progressive increase in the amplitude of the lowest frequencies of the spectrum and a concurrent decrease in the high-frequency range. Within this common behaviour, touch adds to its stabilising action a modest effect on the adaptation rate. Stabilisation is improved by favouring slow oscillations at the expense of sway minimisation. These findings are preliminary to investigations of balance problems in persons with sensory deficits, ageing, and peripheral or central nervous lesion.
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- Stefania Sozzi
- Centro Studi Attività Motorie (CSAM), Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri SB (IRCCS), Pavia, Italy
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Tsay JS, Haith AM, Ivry RB, Kim HE. Interactions between sensory prediction error and task error during implicit motor learning. PLoS Comput Biol 2022; 18:e1010005. [PMID: 35320276 PMCID: PMC8979451 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2021] [Revised: 04/04/2022] [Accepted: 03/09/2022] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Implicit motor recalibration allows us to flexibly move in novel and changing environments. Conventionally, implicit recalibration is thought to be driven by errors in predicting the sensory outcome of movement (i.e., sensory prediction errors). However, recent studies have shown that implicit recalibration is also influenced by errors in achieving the movement goal (i.e., task errors). Exactly how sensory prediction errors and task errors interact to drive implicit recalibration and, in particular, whether task errors alone might be sufficient to drive implicit recalibration remain unknown. To test this, we induced task errors in the absence of sensory prediction errors by displacing the target mid-movement. We found that task errors alone failed to induce implicit recalibration. In additional experiments, we simultaneously varied the size of sensory prediction errors and task errors. We found that implicit recalibration driven by sensory prediction errors could be continuously modulated by task errors, revealing an unappreciated dependency between these two sources of error. Moreover, implicit recalibration was attenuated when the target was simply flickered in its original location, even though this manipulation did not affect task error - an effect likely attributed to attention being directed away from the feedback cursor. Taken as a whole, the results were accounted for by a computational model in which sensory prediction errors and task errors, modulated by attention, interact to determine the extent of implicit recalibration.
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- Jonathan S. Tsay
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- * E-mail: (JST); (HEK)
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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- Department of Physical Therapy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America
- * E-mail: (JST); (HEK)
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Vandevoorde K, Vollenkemper L, Schwan C, Kohlhase M, Schenck W. Using Artificial Intelligence for Assistance Systems to Bring Motor Learning Principles into Real World Motor Tasks. SENSORS 2022; 22:s22072481. [PMID: 35408094 PMCID: PMC9002555 DOI: 10.3390/s22072481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2022] [Revised: 03/18/2022] [Accepted: 03/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Humans learn movements naturally, but it takes a lot of time and training to achieve expert performance in motor skills. In this review, we show how modern technologies can support people in learning new motor skills. First, we introduce important concepts in motor control, motor learning and motor skill learning. We also give an overview about the rapid expansion of machine learning algorithms and sensor technologies for human motion analysis. The integration between motor learning principles, machine learning algorithms and recent sensor technologies has the potential to develop AI-guided assistance systems for motor skill training. We give our perspective on this integration of different fields to transition from motor learning research in laboratory settings to real world environments and real world motor tasks and propose a stepwise approach to facilitate this transition.
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Prolonged Feedback Duration Does Not Affect Implicit Recalibration in a Visuomotor Rotation Task. eNeuro 2022; 9:ENEURO.0447-21.2022. [PMID: 35383109 PMCID: PMC9034752 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0447-21.2022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2021] [Revised: 01/09/2022] [Accepted: 01/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Visuomotor rotations are frequently used to study cognitive processes underlying motor adaptation. Explicit aiming strategies and implicit recalibration are two of these processes. A large body of literature indicates that both processes are in fact dissociable and mainly independent components that can be measured using different manipulations in visuomotor rotation tasks. Visual feedback is a crucial element in these tasks, and it therefore plays an important role when assessing explicit re-aiming and implicit recalibration. For instance, researchers have found timing of visual feedback to affect the contribution of implicit recalibration to learning: if feedback is shown only at the end of the movement (instead of continuously), implicit recalibration decreases. Similarly, participants show lower levels of implicit recalibration if visual feedback is presented with a delay (instead of immediately). We thus hypothesized that the duration of feedback availability might also play a role. The goal of this study was thus to investigate the effect of longer versus shorter feedback durations on implicit recalibration in human participants. To this end, we compared three feedback durations in a between-subject design: 200, 600, and 1200 ms. Using a large sample size, we found differences between groups to be quite small, to the point where most differences indicated statistical equivalence between group means. We therefore hypothesize that feedback duration, when only endpoint feedback is presented, has a negligible effect on implicit recalibration. We propose that future research investigate the effect of feedback duration on other parameters of adaptation, so as proprioceptive recalibration and explicit re-aiming.
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Albert ST, Jang J, Modchalingam S, 't Hart BM, Henriques D, Lerner G, Della-Maggiore V, Haith AM, Krakauer JW, Shadmehr R. Competition between parallel sensorimotor learning systems. eLife 2022; 11:e65361. [PMID: 35225229 PMCID: PMC9068222 DOI: 10.7554/elife.65361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2020] [Accepted: 02/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Sensorimotor learning is supported by at least two parallel systems: a strategic process that benefits from explicit knowledge and an implicit process that adapts subconsciously. How do these systems interact? Does one system's contributions suppress the other, or do they operate independently? Here, we illustrate that during reaching, implicit and explicit systems both learn from visual target errors. This shared error leads to competition such that an increase in the explicit system's response siphons away resources that are needed for implicit adaptation, thus reducing its learning. As a result, steady-state implicit learning can vary across experimental conditions, due to changes in strategy. Furthermore, strategies can mask changes in implicit learning properties, such as its error sensitivity. These ideas, however, become more complex in conditions where subjects adapt using multiple visual landmarks, a situation which introduces learning from sensory prediction errors in addition to target errors. These two types of implicit errors can oppose each other, leading to another type of competition. Thus, during sensorimotor adaptation, implicit and explicit learning systems compete for a common resource: error.
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- Scott T Albert
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of MedicineBaltimoreUnited States
- Neuroscience Center, University of North CarolinaChapel HillUnited States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of MedicineBaltimoreUnited States
- Vanderbilt University School of MedicineNashvilleUnited States
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- Department of Kinesiology and Health Science, York UniversityTorontoCanada
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- IFIBIO Houssay, Deparamento de Fisiología y Biofísia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos AiresBuenos AiresArgentina
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- IFIBIO Houssay, Deparamento de Fisiología y Biofísia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos AiresBuenos AiresArgentina
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of MedicineBaltimoreUnited States
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of MedicineBaltimoreUnited States
- Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of MedicineBaltimoreUnited States
- The Santa Fe InstituteSanta FeUnited States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of MedicineBaltimoreUnited States
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Tsay JS, Kim H, Haith AM, Ivry RB. Understanding implicit sensorimotor adaptation as a process of proprioceptive re-alignment. eLife 2022; 11:76639. [PMID: 35969491 PMCID: PMC9377801 DOI: 10.7554/elife.76639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2021] [Accepted: 07/13/2022] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Multiple learning processes contribute to successful goal-directed actions in the face of changing physiological states, biomechanical constraints, and environmental contexts. Amongst these processes, implicit sensorimotor adaptation is of primary importance, ensuring that movements remain well-calibrated and accurate. A large body of work on reaching movements has emphasized how adaptation centers on an iterative process designed to minimize visual errors. The role of proprioception has been largely neglected, thought to play a passive role in which proprioception is affected by the visual error but does not directly contribute to adaptation. Here, we present an alternative to this visuo-centric framework, outlining a model in which implicit adaptation acts to minimize a proprioceptive error, the distance between the perceived hand position and its intended goal. This proprioceptive re-alignment model (PReMo) is consistent with many phenomena that have previously been interpreted in terms of learning from visual errors, and offers a parsimonious account of numerous unexplained phenomena. Cognizant that the evidence for PReMo rests on correlational studies, we highlight core predictions to be tested in future experiments, as well as note potential challenges for a proprioceptive-based perspective on implicit adaptation.
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- Jonathan S Tsay
- Department of Psychology, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States,Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
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- Department of Physical Therapy, University of DelawareNewarkUnited States,Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of DelawareNewarkUnited States
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimoreUnited States
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States,Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
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Listman JB, Tsay JS, Kim HE, Mackey WE, Heeger DJ. Long-Term Motor Learning in the "Wild" With High Volume Video Game Data. Front Hum Neurosci 2021; 15:777779. [PMID: 34987368 PMCID: PMC8720934 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.777779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2021] [Accepted: 11/25/2021] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Motor learning occurs over long periods of practice during which motor acuity, the ability to execute actions more accurately, precisely, and in less time, improves. Laboratory-based studies of motor learning are typically limited to a small number of participants and a time frame of minutes to several hours per participant. There is a need to assess the generalizability of theories and findings from lab-based motor learning studies on larger samples and time scales. In addition, laboratory-based studies of motor learning use relatively simple motor tasks which participants are unlikely to be intrinsically motivated to learn, limiting the interpretation of their findings in more ecologically valid settings ("in the wild"). We studied the acquisition and longitudinal refinement of a complex sensorimotor skill embodied in a first-person shooter video game scenario, with a large sample size (N = 7174, 682,564 repeats of the 60 s game) over a period of months. Participants voluntarily practiced the gaming scenario for up to several hours per day up to 100 days. We found improvement in performance accuracy (quantified as hit rate) was modest over time but motor acuity (quantified as hits per second) improved considerably, with 40-60% retention from 1 day to the next. We observed steady improvements in motor acuity across multiple days of video game practice, unlike most motor learning tasks studied in the lab that hit a performance ceiling rather quickly. Learning rate was a non-linear function of baseline performance level, amount of daily practice, and to a lesser extent, number of days between practice sessions. In addition, we found that the benefit of additional practice on any given day was non-monotonic; the greatest improvements in motor acuity were evident with about an hour of practice and 90% of the learning benefit was achieved by practicing 30 min per day. Taken together, these results provide a proof-of-concept in studying motor skill acquisition outside the confines of the traditional laboratory, in the presence of unmeasured confounds, and provide new insights into how a complex motor skill is acquired in an ecologically valid setting and refined across much longer time scales than typically explored.
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
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- Department of Physical Therapy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
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Moore RT, Cluff T. Individual Differences in Sensorimotor Adaptation Are Conserved Over Time and Across Force-Field Tasks. Front Hum Neurosci 2021; 15:692181. [PMID: 34916916 PMCID: PMC8669441 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.692181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2021] [Accepted: 11/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Sensorimotor adaptation enables the nervous system to modify actions for different conditions and environments. Many studies have investigated factors that influence adaptation at the group level. There is growing recognition that individuals vary in their ability to adapt motor skills and that a better understanding of individual differences in adaptation may inform how motor skills are taught and rehabilitated. Here we examined individual differences in the adaptation of upper-limb reaching movements. We quantified the extent to which participants adapted their movements to a velocity-dependent force field during an initial session, at 24 h, and again 1-week later. Participants (n = 28) displayed savings, which was expressed as greater initial adaptation when re-exposed to the force field. Individual differences in adaptation across various stages of the experiment displayed weak-strong reliability, such that individuals who adapted to a greater extent in the initial session tended to do so when re-exposed to the force field. Our second experiment investigated if individual differences in adaptation are also present when participants adapt to different force fields or a force field and visuomotor rotation. Separate groups of participants adapted to position- and velocity-dependent force fields (Experiment 2a; n = 20) or a velocity-dependent force field and visuomotor rotation in a single session (Experiment 2b; n = 20). Participants who adapted to a greater extent to velocity-dependent forces tended to show a greater extent of adaptation when exposed to position-dependent forces. In contrast, correlations were weak between various stages of adaptation to the force-field and visuomotor rotation. Collectively, our study reveals individual differences in adaptation that are reliable across repeated exposure to the same force field and present when adapting to different force fields.
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- Robert T Moore
- Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.,Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.,Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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Precision control for a flexible body representation. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2021; 134:104401. [PMID: 34736884 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.10.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2021] [Revised: 10/20/2021] [Accepted: 10/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Adaptive body representation requires the continuous integration of multisensory inputs within a flexible 'body model' in the brain. The present review evaluates the idea that this flexibility is augmented by the contextual modulation of sensory processing 'top-down'; which can be described as precision control within predictive coding formulations of Bayesian inference. Specifically, I focus on the proposal that an attenuation of proprioception may facilitate the integration of conflicting visual and proprioceptive bodily cues. Firstly, I review empirical work suggesting that the processing of visual vs proprioceptive body position information can be contextualised 'top-down'; for instance, by adopting specific attentional task sets. Building up on this, I review research showing a similar contextualisation of visual vs proprioceptive information processing in the rubber hand illusion and in visuomotor adaptation. Together, the reviewed literature suggests that proprioception, despite its indisputable importance for body perception and action control, can be attenuated top-down (through precision control) to facilitate the contextual adaptation of the brain's body model to novel visual feedback.
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Vandevoorde K, Orban de Xivry JJ. Does proprioceptive acuity influence the extent of implicit sensorimotor adaptation in young and older adults? J Neurophysiol 2021; 126:1326-1344. [PMID: 34346739 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00636.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The ability to adjust movements to changes in the environment declines with aging. This age-related decline is caused by the decline of explicit adjustments. However, implicit adaptation remains intact and might even be increased with aging. Since proprioceptive information has been linked to implicit adaptation, it might well be that an age-related decline in proprioceptive acuity might be linked to the performance of older adults in implicit adaptation tasks. Indeed, age-related proprioceptive deficits could lead to altered sensory integration with an increased weighting of the visual sensory-prediction error. Another possibility is that reduced proprioceptive acuity results in an increased reliance on predicted sensory consequences of the movement. Both these explanations led to our preregistered hypothesis: we expected a relation between the decline of proprioception and the amount of implicit adaptation across ages. However, we failed to support this hypothesis. Our results question the existence of reliability-based integration of visual and proprioceptive signals during motor adaptation.
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- Koenraad Vandevoorde
- Movement Control and Neuroplasticity Research Group, Department of Movement Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.,Leuven Brain Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Movement Control and Neuroplasticity Research Group, Department of Movement Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.,Leuven Brain Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Avraham G, Morehead JR, Kim HE, Ivry RB. Reexposure to a sensorimotor perturbation produces opposite effects on explicit and implicit learning processes. PLoS Biol 2021; 19:e3001147. [PMID: 33667219 PMCID: PMC7968744 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2020] [Revised: 03/17/2021] [Accepted: 02/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The motor system demonstrates an exquisite ability to adapt to changes in the environment and to quickly reset when these changes prove transient. If similar environmental changes are encountered in the future, learning may be faster, a phenomenon known as savings. In studies of sensorimotor learning, a central component of savings is attributed to the explicit recall of the task structure and appropriate compensatory strategies. Whether implicit adaptation also contributes to savings remains subject to debate. We tackled this question by measuring, in parallel, explicit and implicit adaptive responses in a visuomotor rotation task, employing a protocol that typically elicits savings. While the initial rate of learning was faster in the second exposure to the perturbation, an analysis decomposing the 2 processes showed the benefit to be solely associated with explicit re-aiming. Surprisingly, we found a significant decrease after relearning in aftereffect magnitudes during no-feedback trials, a direct measure of implicit adaptation. In a second experiment, we isolated implicit adaptation using clamped visual feedback, a method known to eliminate the contribution of explicit learning processes. Consistent with the results of the first experiment, participants exhibited a marked reduction in the adaptation function, as well as an attenuated aftereffect when relearning from the clamped feedback. Motivated by these results, we reanalyzed data from prior studies and observed a consistent, yet unappreciated pattern of attenuation of implicit adaptation during relearning. These results indicate that explicit and implicit sensorimotor processes exhibit opposite effects upon relearning: Explicit learning shows savings, while implicit adaptation becomes attenuated.
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- Guy Avraham
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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- School of Psychology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
- John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Physical Therapy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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