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Addison RN, Van Gemmert AWA. Bilateral Transfer of a Visuomotor Task in Different Workspace Configurations. J Mot Behav 2023; 56:290-304. [PMID: 38108224 DOI: 10.1080/00222895.2023.2293002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2022] [Accepted: 11/19/2023] [Indexed: 12/19/2023]
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Bilateral transfer occurs when a learned behavior transfers from one (group of) effectors(s) to another. Researchers investigating bilateral transfer of a visuomotor adaptation task between limbs used across workspaces have observed divergent results. This study assessed whether bilateral transfer of a visuomotor adaptation task changes with workspace configuration manipulation. Ninety-six right-handed young adults were assigned to one of three workspace locations, i.e., ipsilateral, contralateral, and central. Within each workspace were two retention groups (RRR/LLL) and two bilateral transfer groups (RLR/LRL). Performance before and after training was collected to determine direct and after-effects. We observed an asymmetric transfer of pathlength (left to right) but no ensuing after-effect. However, the transfer of movement time and normalized jerk was symmetric in the contralateral workspace. These findings showed differences in the pattern of bilateral transfer asymmetry in the different workspace configurations, which was parameter specific.
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- Reuben N Addison
- School of Kinesiology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
- MGH Institute of Health Professions, Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston, MA, USA
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Bernier PM, Puygrenier A, Danion FR. Concurrent Implicit Adaptation to Multiple Opposite Perturbations. eNeuro 2023; 10:ENEURO.0066-23.2023. [PMID: 37468329 PMCID: PMC10408782 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0066-23.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2023] [Revised: 06/19/2023] [Accepted: 07/17/2023] [Indexed: 07/21/2023] Open
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Simultaneous adaptation to opposite visuomotor perturbations is known to be difficult. It has been shown to be possible only in situations where the two tasks are associated with different contexts, being either a different colored background, a different area of workspace, or a different follow-through movement. However, many of these elements evoke explicit mechanisms that could contribute to storing separate (modular) memories. It remains to be shown whether simultaneous adaptation to multiple perturbations is possible when they are introduced in a fully implicit manner. Here, we sought to test this possibility using a visuomotor perturbation small enough to eliminate explicit awareness. Participants (N = 25) performed center-out reaching movements with a joystick to five targets located 72° apart. Depending on the target, visual feedback of cursor position was either veridical (one target) or could be rotated by +5 or -5° (two targets each). After 300 trials of adaptation (60 to each target), results revealed that participants were able to fully compensate for each of the imposed rotations. Moreover, when veridical visual feedback was restored, participants exhibited after-effects that were consistent with the rotations applied at each target. Questionnaires collected immediately after the experiment confirmed that none of the participants were aware of the perturbations. These results speak for the existence of implicit processes that can smoothly handle small and opposite visual perturbations when these are associated with distinct target locations.
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- Pierre-Michel Bernier
- Département de Kinanthropologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, J1K 2R1, Canada
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Poitiers, Université de Tours, Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition et l'Apprentissage, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7295, 86073 Poitiers Cedex 9, France
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Poitiers, Université de Tours, Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition et l'Apprentissage, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7295, 86073 Poitiers Cedex 9, France
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Pawlowsky C, Thénault F, Bernier PM. Implicit Sensorimotor Adaptation Proceeds in Absence of Movement Execution. eNeuro 2023; 10:ENEURO.0508-22.2023. [PMID: 37463743 PMCID: PMC10405882 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0508-22.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2022] [Revised: 06/19/2023] [Accepted: 07/07/2023] [Indexed: 07/20/2023] Open
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In implicit sensorimotor adaptation, a mismatch between the predicted and actual sensory feedback results in a sensory prediction error (SPE). Sensory predictions have long been thought to be linked to descending motor commands, implying a necessary contribution of movement execution to adaptation. However, recent work has shown that mere motor imagery (MI) also engages predictive mechanisms, opening up the possibility that MI might be sufficient to drive implicit adaptation. In a within-subject design in humans (n = 30), implicit adaptation was assessed in a center-out reaching task, following a single exposure to a visuomotor rotation. It was hypothesized that performing MI of a reaching movement while being provided with an animation of rotated visual feedback (MI condition) would lead to postrotation biases (PRBs) similar to those observed when the movement is executed (Execution condition). Results revealed that both the MI and Execution conditions led to significant directional biases following rotated trials. Yet the magnitude of these biases was significantly larger in the Execution condition. To further probe the contribution of MI to adaptation, a Control condition was conducted in which participants were presented with the same rotated visual animation as in the MI condition, but in which they were prevented from performing MI. Surprisingly, significant biases were also observed in the Control condition, suggesting that MI per se may not have accounted for adaptation. Overall, these results suggest that implicit adaptation can be partially supported by processes other than those that strictly pertain to generating motor commands, although movement execution does potentiate it.
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- Constance Pawlowsky
- Département de kinanthropologie, Faculté des Sciences de l'Activité Physique, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, J1K 2R1, Canada
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- Département de kinanthropologie, Faculté des Sciences de l'Activité Physique, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, J1K 2R1, Canada
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- Département de kinanthropologie, Faculté des Sciences de l'Activité Physique, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, J1K 2R1, Canada
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Wang Z, Spielmann G, Johannsen N, Greenway F, Irving BA, Dalecki M. Boost your brain: a simple 100% normobaric oxygen treatment improves human motor learning processes. Front Neurosci 2023; 17:1175649. [PMID: 37496738 PMCID: PMC10366362 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1175649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2023] [Accepted: 05/26/2023] [Indexed: 07/28/2023] Open
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Introduction Human motor learning processes are a fundamental part of our daily lives and can be adversely affected by neurologic conditions. Motor learning largely depends on successfully integrating cognitive and motor-related sensory information, and a simple, easily accessible treatment that could enhance such processes would be exciting and clinically impactful. Normobaric 100% oxygen treatment (NbOxTr) is often used as a first-line intervention to improve survival rates of brain cells in neurological trauma, and recent work indicates that improvements in elements crucial for cognitive-motor-related functions can occur during NbOxTr. However, whether NbOxTr can enhance the motor learning processes of healthy human brains is unknown. Here, we investigated whether a brief NbOxTr administered via nasal cannula improves motor learning processes during a visuomotor adaptation task where participants adapt to a visual distortion between visual feedback and hand movements. Methods 40 healthy young adults (M = 21 years) were randomly assigned to a NbOxTr (N = 20; 100% oxygen) or air (N = 20; regular air) group and went through four typical visuomotor adaptation phases (Baseline, Adaptation, After-Effect, Refresher). Gas treatment (flow rate 5 L/min) was only administered during the Adaptation phase of the visuomotor experiment, in both groups. Results The NbOxTr provided during the Adaptation phase led to significantly faster and about 30% improved learning (p < 0.05). Notably, these motor learning improvements consolidated into the subsequent experiment phases, i.e., after the gas treatment was terminated (p < 0.05). Discussion We conclude that this simple and brief NbOxTr dramatically improved fundamental human motor learning processes and may provide promising potential for neurorehabilitation and skill-learning approaches. Further studies should investigate whether similar improvements exist in elderly and neurologically impaired individuals, other motor learning tasks, and also long-lasting effects.
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- Zheng Wang
- School of Kinesiology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
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- School of Kinesiology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
- Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
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- School of Kinesiology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
- Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
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- Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
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- School of Kinesiology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
- Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
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- School of Kinesiology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
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Li N, Liu J, Xie Y, Ji W, Chen Z. Age-related decline of online visuomotor adaptation: a combined effect of deteriorations of motor anticipation and execution. Front Aging Neurosci 2023; 15:1147079. [PMID: 37409009 PMCID: PMC10318141 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2023.1147079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2023] [Accepted: 05/30/2023] [Indexed: 07/07/2023] Open
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The literature has established that the capability of visuomotor adaptation decreases with aging. However, the underlying mechanisms of this decline are yet to be fully understood. The current study addressed this issue by examining how aging affected visuomotor adaptation in a continuous manual tracking task with delayed visual feedback. To distinguish separate contributions of the declined capability of motor anticipation and deterioration of motor execution to this age-related decline, we recorded and analyzed participants' manual tracking performances and their eye movements during tracking. Twenty-nine older people and twenty-three young adults (control group) participated in this experiment. The results showed that the age-related decline of visuomotor adaptation was strongly linked to degraded performance in predictive pursuit eye movement, indicating that declined capability motor anticipation with aging had critical influences on the age-related decline of visuomotor adaptation. Additionally, deterioration of motor execution, measured by random error after controlling for the lag between target and cursor, was found to have an independent contribution to the decline of visuomotor adaptation. Taking these findings together, we see a picture that the age-related decline of visuomotor adaptation is a joint effect of the declined capability of motor anticipation and the deterioration of motor execution with aging.
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- Na Li
- Shanghai Changning Mental Health Center, Shanghai, China
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics, Affiliated Mental Health Center, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Changning Mental Health Center, Shanghai, China
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics, Affiliated Mental Health Center, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Key Laboratory of Space Active Opto-Electronics Technology, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Changning Mental Health Center, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics, Affiliated Mental Health Center, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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Suglia V, Brunetti A, Pasquini G, Caputo M, Marvulli TM, Sibilano E, Della Bella S, Carrozza P, Beni C, Naso D, Monaco V, Cristella G, Bevilacqua V, Buongiorno D. A Serious Game for the Assessment of Visuomotor Adaptation Capabilities during Locomotion Tasks Employing an Embodied Avatar in Virtual Reality. Sensors (Basel) 2023; 23:s23115017. [PMID: 37299744 DOI: 10.3390/s23115017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2023] [Revised: 05/17/2023] [Accepted: 05/22/2023] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The study of visuomotor adaptation (VMA) capabilities has been encompassed in various experimental protocols aimed at investigating human motor control strategies and/or cognitive functions. VMA-oriented frameworks can have clinical applications, primarily in the investigation and assessment of neuromotor impairments caused by conditions such as Parkinson's disease or post-stroke, which affect the lives of tens of thousands of people worldwide. Therefore, they can enhance the understanding of the specific mechanisms of such neuromotor disorders, thus being a potential biomarker for recovery, with the aim of being integrated with conventional rehabilitative programs. Virtual Reality (VR) can be entailed in a framework targeting VMA since it allows the development of visual perturbations in a more customizable and realistic way. Moreover, as has been demonstrated in previous works, a serious game (SG) can further increase engagement thanks to the use of full-body embodied avatars. Most studies implementing VMA frameworks have focused on upper limb tasks and have utilized a cursor as visual feedback for the user. Hence, there is a paucity in the literature about VMA-oriented frameworks targeting locomotion tasks. In this article, the authors present the design, development, and testing of an SG-based framework that addresses VMA in a locomotion activity by controlling a full-body moving avatar in a custom VR environment. This workflow includes a set of metrics to quantitatively assess the participants' performance. Thirteen healthy children were recruited to evaluate the framework. Several quantitative comparisons and analyses were run to validate the different types of introduced visuomotor perturbations and to evaluate the ability of the proposed metrics to describe the difficulty caused by such perturbations. During the experimental sessions, it emerged that the system is safe, easy to use, and practical in a clinical setting. Despite the limited sample size, which represents the main limitation of the study and can be compensated for with future recruitment, the authors claim the potential of this framework as a useful instrument for quantitatively assessing either motor or cognitive impairments. The proposed feature-based approach gives several objective parameters as additional biomarkers that can integrate the conventional clinical scores. Future studies might investigate the relation between the proposed biomarkers and the clinical scores for specific disorders such as Parkinson's disease and cerebral palsy.
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- Vladimiro Suglia
- Department of Electrical and Information Engineering (DEI), Polytechnic University of Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Department of Electrical and Information Engineering (DEI), Polytechnic University of Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy
- Apulian Bioengineering s.r.l., 70026 Modugno, Italy
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- IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS, 50143 Florence, Italy
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- Department of Electrical and Information Engineering (DEI), Polytechnic University of Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Department of Electrical and Information Engineering (DEI), Polytechnic University of Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Department of Electrical and Information Engineering (DEI), Polytechnic University of Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS, 50143 Florence, Italy
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- IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS, 50143 Florence, Italy
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- Department of Electrical and Information Engineering (DEI), Polytechnic University of Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- The Biorobotics Institute, Department of Excellence in Robotics and AI, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, 56127 Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Electrical and Information Engineering (DEI), Polytechnic University of Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy
- Apulian Bioengineering s.r.l., 70026 Modugno, Italy
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- Department of Electrical and Information Engineering (DEI), Polytechnic University of Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy
- Apulian Bioengineering s.r.l., 70026 Modugno, Italy
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Contextual interference refers to the phenomenon whereby a blocked practice schedule results in faster acquisition but poorer retention of new motor skills compared to a random practice schedule. While contextual interference has been observed under a broad range of tasks, it remains unclear if this effect generalizes to the implicit and automatic recalibration of an overlearned motor skill. To address this question, we compared blocked and random practice schedules in a visuomotor rotation task that isolates implicit adaptation. In experiment 1, we found robust signatures of contextual interference in implicit adaptation: compared to participants tested under a blocked training schedule, participants tested under a random training schedule exhibited a reduced rate of learning during the training phase but better retention during a subsequent no-feedback assessment phase. In experiment 2, we again observed an advantage in retention following random practice and showed that this result was not due to a change in context between the training and assessment phases (e.g. a blocked training schedule followed by a random assessment schedule). Taken together, these results indicate that contextual interference is not limited to the acquisition of new motor skills but also applies to the implicit adaptation of established motor skills.
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- Jonathan S. Tsay
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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We examined age-related changes in intermanual transfer and retention of implicit visuomotor adaptation. We further asked if providing augmented somatosensory feedback regarding movement endpoint would enhance visuomotor adaptation. Twenty young adults and twenty older adults were recruited and randomly divided into an Augmented Feedback group and a Control group. All participants reached to five visual targets with visual feedback rotated 30° counter-clockwise relative to their actual hand motion. Augmented somatosensory feedback was provided at the end of the reach via the robotic handle that participants held. Implicit adaptation was assessed in the absence of visual feedback in the right trained hand and in the left untrained hand following rotated training trials to establish implicit adaptation and intermanual transfer of adaptation respectively. Participants then returned 24 hours later to assess retention in the trained and untrained hands. Results revealed that older adults demonstrated a comparable magnitude of implicit adaptation, transfer and retention of visuomotor adaptation as observed in younger adults, regardless of the presence of augmented somatosensory feedback. To conclude, when visuomotor adaptation is driven implicitly, intermanual transfer and retention do not differ significantly between young and older adults, even when the availability of augmented somatosensory feedback is manipulated.
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- Sajida Khanafer
- School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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- School of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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- School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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Tsay JS, Najafi T, Schuck L, Wang T, Ivry RB. Implicit sensorimotor adaptation is preserved in Parkinson's disease. Brain Commun 2022; 4:fcac303. [PMID: 36531745 PMCID: PMC9750131 DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcac303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2022] [Revised: 07/06/2022] [Accepted: 11/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Our ability to enact successful goal-directed actions involves multiple learning processes. Among these processes, implicit motor adaptation ensures that the sensorimotor system remains finely tuned in response to changes in the body and environment. Whether Parkinson's disease impacts implicit motor adaptation remains a contentious area of research: whereas multiple reports show impaired performance in this population, many others show intact performance. While there is a range of methodological differences across studies, one critical issue is that performance in many of the studies may reflect a combination of implicit adaptation and strategic re-aiming. Here, we revisited this controversy using a visuomotor task designed to isolate implicit adaptation. In two experiments, we found that adaptation in response to a wide range of visual perturbations was similar in Parkinson's disease and matched control participants. Moreover, in a meta-analysis of previously published and unpublished work, we found that the mean effect size contrasting Parkinson's disease and controls across 16 experiments involving over 200 participants was not significant. Together, these analyses indicate that implicit adaptation is preserved in Parkinson's disease, offering a fresh perspective on the role of the basal ganglia in sensorimotor learning.
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- Jonathan S Tsay
- Correspondence to: Jonathan S. Tsay 2121 Berkeley Way West Berkeley, CA 94704, USA E-mail:
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- Department of Psychology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA,Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA
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Nettekoven C, Mitchell L, Clarke WT, Emir U, Campbell J, Johansen-Berg H, Jenkinson N, Stagg CJ. Cerebellar GABA Change during Visuomotor Adaptation Relates to Adaptation Performance and Cerebellar Network Connectivity: A Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging Study. J Neurosci 2022; 42:7721-7732. [PMID: 36414012 PMCID: PMC9581563 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0096-22.2022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2022] [Revised: 06/09/2022] [Accepted: 06/16/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Motor adaptation is crucial for performing accurate movements in a changing environment and relies on the cerebellum. Although cerebellar involvement has been well characterized, the neurochemical changes in the cerebellum underpinning human motor adaptation remain unknown. We used a novel magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) technique to measure changes in the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA in the human cerebellum during visuomotor adaptation. Participants (n = 17, six female) used their right hand to adapt to a rotated cursor in the scanner, compared with a control task requiring no adaptation. We spatially resolved adaptation-driven GABA changes at the cerebellar nuclei and cerebellar cortex in the left and the right cerebellar hemisphere independently and found that simple right-hand movements increase GABA in the right cerebellar nuclei and decreases GABA in the left. When isolating adaptation-driven GABA changes, we found that GABA in the left cerebellar nuclei and the right cerebellar nuclei diverged, although GABA change from baseline at the right cerebellar nuclei was not different from zero at the group level. Early adaptation-driven GABA fluctuations in the right cerebellar nuclei correlated with adaptation performance. Participants showing greater GABA decrease adapted better, suggesting early GABA change is behaviorally relevant. Early GABA change also correlated with functional connectivity change in a cerebellar network. Participants showing greater decreases in GABA showed greater strength increases in cerebellar network connectivity. Results were specific to GABA, to adaptation, and to the cerebellar network. This study provides first evidence for plastic changes in cerebellar neurochemistry during motor adaptation. Characterizing these naturally occurring neurochemical changes may provide a basis for developing therapeutic interventions to facilitate human motor adaptation.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Despite motor adaptation being fundamental to maintaining accurate movements, its neurochemical basis remains poorly understood, perhaps because measuring neurochemicals in the human cerebellum is technically challenging. Using a novel magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging method, this study provides evidence for GABA changes in the left compared with the right cerebellar nuclei driven by both simple movement and motor adaptation. Although right cerebellar GABA changes were not significantly different from zero at the group level, the adaptation-driven GABA fluctuations in the right cerebellar nuclei correlated with adaptation performance and with functional connectivity change in a cerebellar network. These results show the first evidence for plastic changes in cerebellar neurochemistry during a cerebellar learning task. This provides the basis for developing therapeutic interventions that facilitate these naturally occurring changes to amplify cerebellar-dependent learning.
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- Caroline Nettekoven
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU UK
- Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
- Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TH UK
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7JX UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU UK
- Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TH UK
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- School of Health Sciences, Purdue University, Purdue, Indiana 47907
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU UK
- Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
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- School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU UK
- Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
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Im HY, Liddy JJ, Song JH. Inconsistent attentional contexts impair re-learning following gradual visuomotor adaptation. J Neurophysiol 2022; 128:527-542. [PMID: 35894429 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00463.2021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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One of the brain's primary functions is to promote actions in dynamic, distracting environments. Because distractions divert attention away from our primary goals, we learn to maintain accurate actions under sensory and cognitive distractions. Visuomotor adaptation refers to learning processes that restore performance when sensorimotor capacities or environmental conditions are abruptly or gradually altered. Prior work showed that learning to counteract an abrupt perturbation while performing either a single or dual task, referred to as the attentional context, led to better and faster re-learning when the same attentional context was reinstated at recall. This suggested that the attentional context was associated with visuomotor adaptation and used as a contextual cue during recall. The current study investigated whether attentional context was associated with visuomotor adaptation to a gradual perturbation, which limits awareness of errors. During adaptation, participants reached to targets while learning to counteract a visuomotor rotation that increased from 0 to 45 deg by 0.3 deg each trial, with or without performing a secondary task. Re-learning was impaired when the attentional context changed between adaptation and recall (Experiment 1), even compared to when the secondary task was only performed during the early or late half of adaptation (Experiment 2). Changing the secondary task between adaptation and recall did not impair re-learning, indicating that the effect was attentional-context-dependent, rather than task-specific (Experiment 3). These findings further highlight the importance of cognitive factors, such as attention, in visuomotor adaptation and have implications for learning and rehabilitation paradigms.
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- Hee Yeon Im
- Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.,BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.,Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
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- Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
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- Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States.,Carney Institute for Brain Science, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
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Chang H, Woo SH, Kang S, Lee CY, Lee JY, Ryu JK. A curtailed task for quantitative evaluation of visuomotor adaptation in the head-mounted display virtual reality environment. Front Psychiatry 2022; 13:963303. [PMID: 36895426 PMCID: PMC9989973 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.963303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2022] [Accepted: 12/26/2022] [Indexed: 02/18/2023] Open
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To accurately perform a goal-directed movement in continuously changing environments, it is unavoidable for individuals to adapt accordingly. The cerebellum has been known to be responsible for such process, specifically adaptation using sensorimotor information. As shown in previous studies, using HMD-VR technology in an experimental setting has similar advantages as in the real-world environment: researchers can manipulate the experimental environment, precisely control the experiments, and quantitatively analyze errors in real time. Moreover, the HMD-VR environment provides high immersiveness and embodiment which even enhance motor learning and increase engagement and motivation of individuals more than real-world environments do. In our HMD-VR-based task, the subjects were trained to adapt to a condition in which the visual information was artificially 20°clockwise rotated from the actual cursor movement. The subjects used a virtual reality tracker to move the cursor from a starting point to a target that appeared randomly at five locations, 20 cm from the starting point with an interval of 15°. Although no significant side effects were expected from experiencing the HMD-VR environment, we considered the appropriate number of trials for patients with cerebellar disease for future use in clinical settings. To examine the feasibility of our task for analysis of visuomotor adaptation pattern as shown in a real-world-based task, we created and compared two paradigms with a difference in the number of trials. As we expected, the results showed that the heading angle error decreased as the participants of both paradigms continued the task and that there was no significant difference between the two paradigms. Next, we applied our short task paradigm to patients diagnosed with cerebellar ataxia and age-matched controls for further examination of applicability to diagnosis and rehabilitation of the patients. As a result, we observed the distinguishable adaptation pattern of the patient group by using our paradigm. Overall, the results suggest that our paradigm is feasible to analyze the visuomotor adaptation pattern of healthy individuals and patients with cerebellar ataxia so may contribute to the clinical field.
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- Huiyeong Chang
- Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.,Laboratory for Natural and Artificial Kinästhese, Convergence Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Dongguk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Laboratory for Natural and Artificial Kinästhese, Convergence Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Dongguk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Laboratory for Natural and Artificial Kinästhese, Convergence Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Dongguk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.,Human Development and Rehabilitation, Graduate School of Science in Education Service, Dongguk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital, Ewha Womans University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Seoul Metropolitan Government-Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Laboratory for Natural and Artificial Kinästhese, Convergence Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Dongguk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.,Human Development and Rehabilitation, Graduate School of Science in Education Service, Dongguk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.,Department of Physical Education, Dongguk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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De Havas J, Haggard P, Gomi H, Bestmann S, Ikegaya Y, Hagura N. Evidence that endpoint feedback facilitates intermanual transfer of visuomotor force learning by a cognitive strategy. J Neurophysiol 2022; 127:16-26. [PMID: 34879215 PMCID: PMC8794053 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00008.2021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Humans continuously adapt their movement to a novel environment by recalibrating their sensorimotor system. Recent evidence, however, shows that explicit planning to compensate for external changes, i.e., a cognitive strategy, can also aid performance. If such a strategy is planned in external space, it should improve performance in an effector-independent manner. We tested this hypothesis by examining whether promoting a cognitive strategy during a visual-force adaptation task performed in one hand can facilitate learning for the opposite hand. Participants rapidly adjusted the height of visual bar on screen to a target level by isometrically exerting force on a handle using their right hand. Visuomotor gain increased during the task and participants learned the increased gain. Visual feedback was continuously provided for one group, whereas for another group only the endpoint of the force trajectory was presented. The latter has been reported to promote cognitive strategy use. We found that endpoint feedback produced stronger intermanual transfer of learning and slower response times than continuous feedback. In a separate experiment, we found evidence that aftereffects are reduced when only endpoint feedback is provided, a finding that has been consistently observed when cognitive strategies are used. The results suggest that intermanual transfer can be facilitated by a cognitive strategy. This indicates that the behavioral observation of intermanual transfer can be achieved either by forming an effector-independent motor representation or by sharing an effector-independent cognitive strategy between the hands. NEW & NOTEWORTHY The causes and consequences of cognitive strategy use are poorly understood. We tested whether a visuomotor task learned in a manner that may promote cognitive strategy use causes greater generalization across effectors. Visual feedback was manipulated to promote cognitive strategy use. Learning consistent with cognitive strategy use for one hand transferred to the unlearned hand. Our result suggests that intermanual transfer can result from a common cognitive strategy used to control both hands.
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- Jack De Havas
- NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Atsugi, Japan.,Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, United Kingdom.,Center for Information and Neural Networks, National Institute for Information and Communications Technology, Osaka, Japan
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Atsugi, Japan
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- UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, Department of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom.,Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Center for Information and Neural Networks, National Institute for Information and Communications Technology, Osaka, Japan.,Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Center for Information and Neural Networks, National Institute for Information and Communications Technology, Osaka, Japan.,Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
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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] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [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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The question of whether and how aging affects humans’ visuomotor adaptation remains controversial. This study investigates how the effect of aging on visuomotor adaptation is related to age-related cognitive declines. We compared the performance of 100 older people (age: 55–82 years) and 20 young adults (age: 18–27 years) on a visuomotor adaptation task and three cognition tasks. A decline in visuomotor adaptation of older people was well observed. However, this decline was not strongly correlated with chronological age increase but was associated to the age-related declines of cognitive functions and speed of motor planning. We then constructed a structural mediation model in which the declined cognitive resources mediated the effect of age increase on the decline in visuomotor adaptation. The data from the present study was well-explained by the mediation model. These findings indicate that the aging effect on visuomotor adaptation mainly reflects the age-related decline of cognitive functions, which results in insufficient explicit processing on visual perturbation during visuomotor control.
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- Na Li
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics, Affiliated Mental Health Center, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics, Affiliated Mental Health Center, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics, Affiliated Mental Health Center, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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Parmar PN, Patton JL. Direction-Specific Iterative Tuning of Motor Commands With Local Generalization During Randomized Reaching Practice Across Movement Directions. Front Neurorobot 2021; 15:651214. [PMID: 34776918 PMCID: PMC8586720 DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2021.651214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2021] [Accepted: 09/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
During motor learning, people often practice reaching in variety of movement directions in a randomized sequence. Such training has been shown to enhance retention and transfer capability of the acquired skill compared to the blocked repetition of the same movement direction. The learning system must accommodate such randomized order either by having a memory for each movement direction, or by being able to generalize what was learned in one movement direction to the controls of nearby directions. While our preliminary study used a comprehensive dataset from visuomotor learning experiments and evaluated the first-order model candidates that considered the memory of error and generalization across movement directions, here we expanded our list of candidate models that considered the higher-order effects and error-dependent learning rates. We also employed cross-validation to select the leading models. We found that the first-order model with a constant learning rate was the best at predicting learning curves. This model revealed an interaction between the learning and forgetting processes using the direction-specific memory of error. As expected, learning effects were observed at the practiced movement direction on a given trial. Forgetting effects (error increasing) were observed at the unpracticed movement directions with learning effects from generalization from the practiced movement direction. Our study provides insights that guide optimal training using the machine-learning algorithms in areas such as sports coaching, neurorehabilitation, and human-machine interactions.
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- Pritesh N. Parmar
- Richard and Loan Hill Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
- Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (formerly the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago), Chicago, IL, United States
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- Richard and Loan Hill Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
- Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (formerly the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago), Chicago, IL, United States
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Wijeyaratnam DO, Chua R, Cressman EK. Changes in Movement Control Processes Following Visuomotor Adaptation. J Mot Behav 2021; 54:113-124. [PMID: 34121631 DOI: 10.1080/00222895.2021.1921687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
Abstract
Goal-directed reaches are modified based on previous errors experienced (i.e., offline control) and current errors experienced during movement execution (i.e., online control). It is well documented that the control processes (i.e., offline and online control) underlying well learned movements change based on the time available to complete an action, such that offline control processes are engaged to a greater extent when movements are completed in a faster movement time (MT). Here, we asked if the underlying movement control processes governing newly acquired movements also change under varying MT constraints. Sixteen participants adapted their movements to a visuomotor distortion. Following reach training trials, participants reached under Long (800-1000 ms) and Short (400-500 ms) MT constraints. Results indicate that movement errors when reaching with the rotated cursor were reduced online under the Long MT constraint compared to the Short MT constraint. Thus, the contributions of offline and online movement control processes engaged in newly acquired movements can be adjusted with changes in temporal demands.
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- School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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Mizuno K, Tsujimoto K, Tsuji T. Effect of Prism Adaptation Therapy on the Activities of Daily Living and Awareness for Spatial Neglect: A Secondary Analysis of the Randomized, Controlled Trial. Brain Sci 2021; 11:brainsci11030347. [PMID: 33803412 PMCID: PMC8001351 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci11030347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2021] [Revised: 03/04/2021] [Accepted: 03/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Rehabilitation for unilateral spatial neglect (USN) using prism adaptation (PA) is one of the most widely used methods, and the effectiveness of PA is well-evidenced. Although the effect of PA generalized various neglect symptoms, the effectiveness for some aspects of neglect is not fully proven. The Catherine Bergego Scale (CBS) was developed to identify problems with the activities of daily living (ADL) caused by USN. The CBS is composed of 10 observation assessments and a self-assessment questionnaire. To assess the self-awareness of USN, the anosognosia score is calculated as the difference between the observational scores and the self-assessment scores. To investigate how PA affects ADL and self-awareness in subacute USN patients during rehabilitation, we analyzed each item of the CBS and self-awareness from a randomized, controlled trial (RCT) that we previously conducted (Mizuno et al., 2011). METHODS A double-masked randomized, controlled trial was conducted to evaluate the effects of a 2-week PA therapy on USN in 8 hospitals in Japan. We compared each item of the CBS, anosognosia score, and absolute value of the anosognosia score between the prism group and the control group. RESULTS Two of ten items (gaze orientation and exploration of personal belongings) were significantly improved in the prism group compared with those in the control group. The absolute value of the anosognosia score was significantly improved by PA. CONCLUSIONS Improvement of oculomotor exploration by PA may generalize the behavioral level in a daily living environment. This study suggested that PA could accelerate the self-awareness of neglect during subacute rehabilitation.
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- Katsuhiro Mizuno
- Department of Physical Rehabilitation, National Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, 4-1-1 Ogawa-Higashi, Kodaira, Tokyo 187-8551, Japan;
- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan;
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +81-(0)-42-341-2711
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- Department of Physical Rehabilitation, National Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, 4-1-1 Ogawa-Higashi, Kodaira, Tokyo 187-8551, Japan;
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan;
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Hamel R, Dallaire-Jean L, De La Fontaine É, Lepage JF, Bernier PM. Learning the same motor task twice impairs its retention in a time- and dose-dependent manner. Proc Biol Sci 2021; 288:20202556. [PMID: 33434470 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Anterograde interference emerges when two differing tasks are learned in close temporal proximity, an effect repeatedly attributed to a competition between differing task memories. However, recent development alternatively suggests that initial learning may trigger a refractory period that occludes neuroplasticity and impairs subsequent learning, consequently mediating interference independently of memory competition. Accordingly, this study tested the hypothesis that interference can emerge when the same motor task is being learned twice, that is when competition between memories is prevented. In a first experiment, the inter-session interval (ISI) between two identical motor learning sessions was manipulated to be 2 min, 1 h or 24 h. Results revealed that retention of the second session was impaired as compared to the first one when the ISI was 2 min but not when it was 1 h or 24 h, indicating a time-dependent process. Results from a second experiment replicated those of the first one and revealed that adding a third motor learning session with a 2 min ISI further impaired retention, indicating a dose-dependent process. Results from a third experiment revealed that the retention impairments did not take place when a learning session was preceded by simple rehearsal of the motor task without concurrent learning, thus ruling out fatigue and confirming that retention is impaired specifically when preceded by a learning session. Altogether, the present results suggest that competing memories is not the sole mechanism mediating anterograde interference and introduce the possibility that a time- and dose-dependent refractory period-independent of fatigue-also contributes to its emergence. One possibility is that learning transiently perturbs the homeostasis of learning-related neuronal substrates. Introducing additional learning when homeostasis is still perturbed may not only impair performance improvements, but also memory formation.
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- R Hamel
- Département de pédiatrie, Faculté de médecine et des sciences de la santé, Université de Sherbrooke; Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.,Département de kinanthropologie, Faculté des sciences de l'activité physique, Université de Sherbrooke, 2500 Boulevard de l'Université, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada J1K 2R1
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- Département de kinanthropologie, Faculté des sciences de l'activité physique, Université de Sherbrooke, 2500 Boulevard de l'Université, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada J1K 2R1
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- Département de kinanthropologie, Faculté des sciences de l'activité physique, Université de Sherbrooke, 2500 Boulevard de l'Université, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada J1K 2R1
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- Département de pédiatrie, Faculté de médecine et des sciences de la santé, Université de Sherbrooke; Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
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- Département de kinanthropologie, Faculté des sciences de l'activité physique, Université de Sherbrooke, 2500 Boulevard de l'Université, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada J1K 2R1
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Vyas S, O'Shea DJ, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV. Causal Role of Motor Preparation during Error-Driven Learning. Neuron 2020; 106:329-339.e4. [PMID: 32053768 PMCID: PMC7185427 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.01.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2019] [Revised: 11/12/2019] [Accepted: 01/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
Current theories suggest that an error-driven learning process updates trial-by-trial to facilitate motor adaptation. How this process interacts with motor cortical preparatory activity-which current models suggest plays a critical role in movement initiation-remains unknown. Here, we evaluated the role of motor preparation during visuomotor adaptation. We found that preparation time was inversely correlated to variance of errors on current trials and mean error on subsequent trials. We also found causal evidence that intracortical microstimulation during motor preparation was sufficient to disrupt learning. Surprisingly, stimulation did not affect current trials, but instead disrupted the update computation of a learning process, thereby affecting subsequent trials. This is consistent with a Bayesian estimation framework where the motor system reduces its learning rate by virtue of lowering error sensitivity when faced with uncertainty. This interaction between motor preparation and the error-driven learning system may facilitate new probes into mechanisms underlying trial-by-trial adaptation.
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- Saurabh Vyas
- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Neurosciences Graduate Program, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Palo Alto, CA 94301, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Bio-X Program, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Schween R, McDougle SD, Hegele M, Taylor JA. Assessing explicit strategies in force field adaptation. J Neurophysiol 2020; 123:1552-1565. [PMID: 32208878 PMCID: PMC7191530 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00427.2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2019] [Revised: 02/12/2020] [Accepted: 03/19/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that a number of learning processes are at play in visuomotor adaptation tasks. In addition to implicitly adapting to a perturbation, learners can develop explicit knowledge allowing them to select better actions in responding to it. Advances in visuomotor rotation experiments have underscored the important role of such "explicit learning" in shaping adaptation to kinematic perturbations. Yet, in adaptation to dynamic perturbations, its contribution has been largely overlooked. We therefore sought to approach the assessment of explicit learning in adaptation to dynamic perturbations, by developing two novel modifications of a force field experiment. First, we asked learners to abandon any cognitive strategy before selected force channel trials to expose consciously accessible parts of overall learning. Here, learners indeed reduced compensatory force compared with standard Catch channels. Second, we instructed a group of learners to mimic their right hand's adaptation by moving with their naïve left hand. While a control group displayed negligible left hand force compensation, the mimicking group reported forces that approximated right hand adaptation but appeared to under-report the velocity component of the force field in favor of a more position-based component. Our results highlight the viability of explicit learning as a potential contributor to force field adaptation, though the fraction of learning under participants' deliberate control on average remained considerably smaller than that of implicit learning, despite task conditions favoring explicit learning. The methods we employed provide a starting point for investigating the contribution of explicit strategies to force field adaptation.NEW & NOTEWORTHY While the contribution of explicit learning has been increasingly studied in visuomotor adaptation, its contribution to force field adaptation has not been studied extensively. We employed two novel methods to assay explicit learning in a force field adaptation task and found that learners can voluntarily control aspects of compensatory force production and manually report it with their untrained limb. This supports the general viability of the contribution of explicit learning also in force field adaptation.
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- Raphael Schween
- Neuromotor Behavior Laboratory, Department of Psychology & Sport Science, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California
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- Neuromotor Behavior Laboratory, Department of Psychology & Sport Science, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
- Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior, Universities of Marburg and Giessen, Marburg, Germany
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- Intelligent Performance and Adaptation Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
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Lerner G, Albert S, Caffaro PA, Villalta JI, Jacobacci F, Shadmehr R, Della-Maggiore V. The Origins of Anterograde Interference in Visuomotor Adaptation. Cereb Cortex 2020; 30:4000-4010. [PMID: 32133494 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhaa016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2019] [Revised: 01/12/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
Abstract
Anterograde interference refers to the negative impact of prior learning on the propensity for future learning. There is currently no consensus on whether this phenomenon is transient or long lasting, with studies pointing to an effect in the time scale of hours to days. These inconsistencies might be caused by the method employed to quantify performance, which often confounds changes in learning rate and retention. Here, we aimed to unveil the time course of anterograde interference by tracking its impact on visuomotor adaptation at different intervals throughout a 24-h period. Our empirical and model-based approaches allowed us to measure the capacity for new learning separately from the influence of a previous memory. In agreement with previous reports, we found that prior learning persistently impaired the initial level of performance upon revisiting the task. However, despite this strong initial bias, learning capacity was impaired only when conflicting information was learned up to 1 h apart, recovering thereafter with passage of time. These findings suggest that when adapting to conflicting perturbations, impairments in performance are driven by two distinct mechanisms: a long-lasting bias that acts as a prior and hinders initial performance and a short-lasting anterograde interference that originates from a reduction in error sensitivity.
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- Gonzalo Lerner
- Departamento de Fisiología y Biofísica, Facultad de Medicina, Instituto de Fisiología y Biofísica (IFIBIO) Houssay, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires C1121ABG, Argentina
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
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- Departamento de Fisiología y Biofísica, Facultad de Medicina, Instituto de Fisiología y Biofísica (IFIBIO) Houssay, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires C1121ABG, Argentina
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- Departamento de Fisiología y Biofísica, Facultad de Medicina, Instituto de Fisiología y Biofísica (IFIBIO) Houssay, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires C1121ABG, Argentina
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- Departamento de Fisiología y Biofísica, Facultad de Medicina, Instituto de Fisiología y Biofísica (IFIBIO) Houssay, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires C1121ABG, Argentina
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
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- Departamento de Fisiología y Biofísica, Facultad de Medicina, Instituto de Fisiología y Biofísica (IFIBIO) Houssay, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires C1121ABG, Argentina
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Castronovo AM, Giles Doran C, Holden M, Severini G. Analysis of the Effectiveness of Sub-sensory Electrical Noise Stimulation During Visuomotor Adaptations in Different Visual Feedback Conditions. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2020; 7:399. [PMID: 31921805 PMCID: PMC6915077 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2019.00399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2019] [Accepted: 11/22/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Sub-sensory electrical noise stimulation has been shown to improve motor performance in tasks that mainly rely on proprioceptive feedback. During the execution of movements such as reaching, proprioceptive feedback combines dynamically with visual feedback. It is still unclear whether boosting proprioceptive information in tasks where proprioception mixes with vision can influence motor performance. To better understand this point, we tested the effect of electrical noise stimulation applied superficially to the muscle spindles during four different experiments consisting of isometric reaching tasks under different visual feedback conditions. The first experiment (n = 40) consisted of a reach-and-hold task where subjects had to hold a cursor on a target for 30 s and had visual feedback removed 10 s into the task. Subjects performed 30 repetitions of this task with different stimulation levels, including no stimulation. We observed that trials in which the stimulation was present displayed smaller movement variability. Moreover, we observed a positive correlation between the level of stimulation and task performance. The other three experiments consisted of three versions of an isometric visuomotor adaptation task where subjects were asked to reach to random targets in <1.5 s (otherwise incurring in negative feedback) while overcoming a 45° clockwise rotation in the mapping between the force exerted and the movement of the cursor. The three experiments differed in the visual feedback presented to the subjects, with one group (n = 20) performing the experiment with full visual feedback, one (n = 10) with visual feedback restricted only to the beginning of the trajectory, and one (n = 10) without visual feedback of the trajectory. All subjects performed their experiment twice, with and without stimulation. We did not observe substantial effects of the stimulation when visual feedback was present (either completely or partially). We observed a limited effect of the stimulation in the absence of visual feedback consisting in a significant smaller number of negative-feedback trials and a significant smaller movement time in the first block of the adaptation phase. Our results suggest that sub-sensory stimulation can be beneficial when proprioception is the main feedback modality but mostly ineffective in tasks where visual feedback is actively employed.
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- School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.,UCD Centre for Biomedical Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.,Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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Wong AL, Marvel CL, Taylor JA, Krakauer JW. Can patients with cerebellar disease switch learning mechanisms to reduce their adaptation deficits? Brain 2019; 142:662-673. [PMID: 30689760 PMCID: PMC6391651 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awy334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2018] [Revised: 11/08/2018] [Accepted: 11/15/2018] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Systematic perturbations in motor adaptation tasks are primarily countered by learning from sensory-prediction errors, with secondary contributions from other learning processes. Despite the availability of these additional processes, particularly the use of explicit re-aiming to counteract observed target errors, patients with cerebellar degeneration are surprisingly unable to compensate for their sensory-prediction error deficits by spontaneously switching to another learning mechanism. We hypothesized that if the nature of the task was changed-by allowing vision of the hand, which eliminates sensory-prediction errors-patients could be induced to preferentially adopt aiming strategies to solve visuomotor rotations. To test this, we first developed a novel visuomotor rotation paradigm that provides participants with vision of their hand in addition to the cursor, effectively setting the sensory-prediction error signal to zero. We demonstrated in younger healthy control subjects that this promotes a switch to strategic re-aiming based on target errors. We then showed that with vision of the hand, patients with cerebellar degeneration could also switch to an aiming strategy in response to visuomotor rotations, performing similarly to age-matched participants (older controls). Moreover, patients could retrieve their learned aiming solution after vision of the hand was removed (although they could not improve beyond what they retrieved), and retain it for at least 1 year. Both patients and older controls, however, exhibited impaired overall adaptation performance compared to younger healthy controls (age 18-33 years), likely due to age-related reductions in spatial and working memory. Patients also failed to generalize, i.e. they were unable to adopt analogous aiming strategies in response to novel rotations. Hence, there appears to be an inescapable obligatory dependence on sensory-prediction error-based learning-even when this system is impaired in patients with cerebellar disease. The persistence of sensory-prediction error-based learning effectively suppresses a switch to target error-based learning, which perhaps explains the unexpectedly poor performance by patients with cerebellar degeneration in visuomotor adaptation tasks.
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- Aaron L Wong
- Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Elkins Park, PA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Reaching to targets in a virtual reality environment with misaligned visual feedback of the hand results in changes in movements (visuomotor adaptation) and sense of felt hand position (proprioceptive recalibration). We asked if proprioceptive recalibration arises even when the misalignment between visual and proprioceptive estimates of hand position is only experienced during movement. Participants performed a "shooting task" through the targets with a cursor that was rotated 30° clockwise relative to hand motion. Results revealed that, following training on the shooting task, participants adapted their reaches to all targets by approximately 16° and recalibrated their sense of felt hand position by 8°. Thus, experiencing a sensory misalignment between visual and proprioceptive estimates of hand position during movement leads to proprioceptive recalibration.
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- School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Previous studies have provided consistent evidence that adaptation to visuomotor rotations during reaching declines with age. Since it has been recently shown that learning and retention components of motor adaptation are modulated by reward and punishment, we were interested in how motivational feedback affects age-related decline in reaching adaptation. We studied 35 young and 32 older adults in a reaching task which required fast shooting movements toward visual targets with their right hand. A robotic manipulandum (vBOT system) allowed measuring reaching trajectories. Targets and visual feedback on hand position were presented using a setup that prevented direct vision of the hand and projected a virtual image by a semi-silvered mirror. After a baseline block with veridical visual feedback we introduced a 30° counterclockwise visuomotor rotation. After this adaptation block we also measured retention of adaptation without visual feedback and finally readaptation for the previously experienced rotation. In the adaptation block participants were assigned to one of three motivational feedback conditions, i.e., neutral, reward, or punishment. Reward and punishment feedback was based on reaching endpoint error. Our results consistently corroborated reduced motor learning capacities in older adults (p < 0.001, η2 = 0.56). However, motivational feedback modulated learning rates equivalently in both age groups (p = 0.028, η2 = 0.14). Rewarding feedback induced faster learning, though punishing feedback had no effect. For retention we determined a significant interaction effect between motivational feedback and age group (p = 0.032, η2 = 0.13). Previously provided motivational feedback was detrimental for young adults, but not for older adults. We did not observe robust effects of motivational feedback on readaptation (p = 0.167, η2 = 0.07). Our findings support that motor learning is subject to modulation by motivational feedback. Whereas learning is boosted across both age groups, retention is vulnerable to previously experienced motivational incentives in young adults. In summary, in particular older adults benefit from motivational feedback during reaching adaptation so that age-related differences in visuomotor plasticity, though persisting, can be attenuated. We suggest that the use of motivational information provides a potentially compensatory mechanism during functional aging.
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- Jing Huang
- Abteilung Allgemeine Psychologie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Giessen, Germany
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- Experimentelle Sensomotorik, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, qGiessen, Germany
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- Abteilung Allgemeine Psychologie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Giessen, Germany
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Hewitson CL, Sowman PF, Kaplan DM. Interlimb Generalization of Learned Bayesian Visuomotor Prior Occurs in Extrinsic Coordinates. eNeuro 2018; 5:ENEURO. [PMID: 30131969 DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0183-18.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2018] [Revised: 06/24/2018] [Accepted: 07/06/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Recent work suggests that the brain represents probability distributions and performs Bayesian integration during sensorimotor learning. However, our understanding of the neural representation of this learning remains limited. To begin to address this, we performed two experiments. In the first experiment, we replicated the key behavioral findings of Körding and Wolpert (2004), demonstrating that humans can perform in a Bayes-optimal manner by combining information about their own sensory uncertainty and a statistical distribution of lateral shifts encountered in a visuomotor adaptation task. In the second experiment, we extended these findings by testing whether visuomotor learning occurring during the same task generalizes from one limb to the other, and relatedly, whether this learning is represented in an extrinsic or intrinsic reference frame. We found that the learned mean of the distribution of visuomotor shifts generalizes to the opposite limb only when the perturbation is congruent in extrinsic coordinates, indicating that the underlying representation of learning acquired during training is available to the untrained limb and is coded in an extrinsic reference frame.
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van der Vliet R, Frens MA, de Vreede L, Jonker ZD, Ribbers GM, Selles RW, van der Geest JN, Donchin O. Individual Differences in Motor Noise and Adaptation Rate Are Optimally Related. eNeuro 2018; 5:ENEURO. [PMID: 30073197 DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0170-18.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2018] [Revised: 06/09/2018] [Accepted: 06/13/2018] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Individual variations in motor adaptation rate were recently shown to correlate with movement variability or "motor noise" in a forcefield adaptation task. However, this finding could not be replicated in a meta-analysis of adaptation experiments. Possibly, this inconsistency stems from noise being composed of distinct components that relate to adaptation rate in different ways. Indeed, previous modeling and electrophysiological studies have suggested that motor noise can be factored into planning noise, originating from the brain, and execution noise, stemming from the periphery. Were the motor system optimally tuned to these noise sources, planning noise would correlate positively with adaptation rate, and execution noise would correlate negatively with adaptation rate, a phenomenon familiar in Kalman filters. To test this prediction, we performed a visuomotor adaptation experiment in 69 subjects. Using a novel Bayesian fitting procedure, we succeeded in applying the well-established state-space model of adaptation to individual data. We found that adaptation rate correlates positively with planning noise (β = 0.44; 95% HDI = [0.27 0.59]) and negatively with execution noise (β = -0.39; 95% HDI = [-0.50 -0.30]). In addition, the steady-state Kalman gain calculated from planning and execution noise correlated positively with adaptation rate (r = 0.54; 95% HDI = [0.38 0.66]). These results suggest that motor adaptation is tuned to approximate optimal learning, consistent with the "optimal control" framework that has been used to explain motor control. Since motor adaptation is thought to be a largely cerebellar process, the results further suggest the sensitivity of the cerebellum to both planning noise and execution noise.
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Kumar N, Kumar A, Sonane B, Mutha PK. Interference between competing motor memories developed through learning with different limbs. J Neurophysiol 2018; 120:1061-1073. [PMID: 29790834 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00905.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Learning from motor errors that occur across different limbs is essential for effective tool use, sports training, and rehabilitation. To probe the neural organization of error-driven learning across limbs, we asked whether learning opposing visuomotor mappings with the two arms would interfere. Young right-handers first adapted to opposite visuomotor rotations A and B with different arms and were then reexposed to A 24 h later. We observed that relearning of A was never faster nor were initial errors smaller than prior A learning, which would be expected if there was no interference from B. Rather, errors were greater than or similar to, and learning rate was slower than or comparable to, previous A learning depending on the order in which the arms learned. This indicated robust interference between the motor memories of A and B when they were learned with different arms in close succession. We then proceeded to uncover that the order-dependent asymmetry in performance upon reexposure resulted from asymmetric transfer of learning from the left arm to the right but not vice versa and that the observed interference was retrograde in nature. Such retrograde interference likely occurs because the two arms require the same neural resources for learning, a suggestion consistent with that of our past work showing impaired learning following left inferior parietal damage regardless of the arm used. These results thus point to a common neural basis for formation of new motor memories with different limbs and hold significant implications for how newly formed motor memories interact. NEW & NOTEWORTHY In a series of experiments, we demonstrate robust retrograde interference between competing motor memories developed through error-based learning with different arms. These results provide evidence for shared neural resources for the acquisition of motor memories across different limbs and also suggest that practice with two effectors in close succession may not be a sound approach in either sports or rehabilitation. Such training may not allow newly acquired motor memories to be stabilized.
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- Neeraj Kumar
- Centre for Cognitive Science, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
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- Centre for Cognitive Science, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
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- Centre for Cognitive Science, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India.,Department of Biological Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
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Despite increasing interest in the role of reward in motor learning, the underlying mechanisms remain ill defined. In particular, the contribution of explicit processes to reward-based motor learning is unclear. To address this, we examined subjects' ( n = 30) ability to learn to compensate for a gradually introduced 25° visuomotor rotation with only reward-based feedback (binary success/failure). Only two-thirds of subjects ( n = 20) were successful at the maximum angle. The remaining subjects initially followed the rotation but after a variable number of trials began to reach at an insufficiently large angle and subsequently returned to near-baseline performance ( n = 10). Furthermore, those who were successful accomplished this via a large explicit component, evidenced by a reduction in reach angle when they were asked to remove any strategy they employed. However, both groups displayed a small degree of remaining retention even after the removal of this explicit component. All subjects made greater and more variable changes in reach angle after incorrect (unrewarded) trials. However, subjects who failed to learn showed decreased sensitivity to errors, even in the initial period in which they followed the rotation, a pattern previously found in parkinsonian patients. In a second experiment, the addition of a secondary mental rotation task completely abolished learning ( n = 10), while a control group replicated the results of the first experiment ( n = 10). These results emphasize a pivotal role of explicit processes during reinforcement-based motor learning, and the susceptibility of this form of learning to disruption has important implications for its potential therapeutic benefits. NEW & NOTEWORTHY We demonstrate that learning a visuomotor rotation with only reward-based feedback is principally accomplished via the development of a large explicit component. Furthermore, this form of learning is susceptible to disruption with a secondary task. The results suggest that future experiments utilizing reward-based feedback should aim to dissect the roles of implicit and explicit reinforcement learning systems. Therapeutic motor learning approaches based on reward should be aware of the sensitivity to disruption.
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- Peter Holland
- School of Psychology, University of Birmingham , Birmingham , United Kingdom
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- School of Psychology, University of Birmingham , Birmingham , United Kingdom
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- School of Psychology, University of Birmingham , Birmingham , United Kingdom
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Gallivan JP, Stewart BM, Baugh LA, Wolpert DM, Flanagan JR. Rapid Automatic Motor Encoding of Competing Reach Options. Cell Rep 2017; 18:1619-1626. [PMID: 28199835 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.01.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2016] [Revised: 12/16/2016] [Accepted: 01/19/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Mounting neural evidence suggests that, in situations in which there are multiple potential targets for action, the brain prepares, in parallel, competing movements associated with these targets, prior to implementing one of them. Central to this interpretation is the idea that competing viewed targets, prior to selection, are rapidly and automatically transformed into corresponding motor representations. Here, by applying target-specific, gradual visuomotor rotations and dissociating, unbeknownst to participants, the visual direction of potential targets from the direction of the movements required to reach the same targets, we provide direct evidence for this provocative idea. Our results offer strong empirical support for theories suggesting that competing action options are automatically represented in terms of the movements required to attain them. The rapid motor encoding of potential targets may support the fast optimization of motor costs under conditions of target uncertainty and allow the motor system to inform decisions about target selection.
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- Jason P Gallivan
- Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada; Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada; Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada.
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- Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069, USA
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- Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK
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- Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada; Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada.
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Lei Y, Bao S, Perez MA, Wang J. Enhancing Generalization of Visuomotor Adaptation by Inducing Use-dependent Learning. Neuroscience 2017; 366:184-195. [PMID: 29031601 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2017] [Revised: 09/29/2017] [Accepted: 10/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Learning a motor task in one condition typically generalizes to another, although it is unclear why it generalizes substantially in certain situations, but only partially in other situations (e.g., across movement directions and motor effectors). Here, we demonstrate that generalization of motor learning across directions and effectors can be enhanced substantially by inducing use-dependent learning, that is, by having subjects experience motor actions associated with a desired trajectory repeatedly during reaching movements. In Experiments 1 and 2, healthy human adults adapted to a visuomotor rotation while concurrently experiencing repetitive passive movements guided by a robot. This manipulation increased the extent of generalization across movement directions (Expt. 1) and across the arms (Expt. 2) by up to 50% and 42%, respectively, indicating crucial contribution of use-dependent learning to motor generalization. In Experiment 3, we applied repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to the left primary motor cortex (M1) of the human subjects prior to passive training with the right arm to increase cortical excitability. This intervention resulted in increased motor-evoked potentials (MEPs) and decreased short-interval intracortical inhibition (SICI) in the rTMS group, but not in the sham group. These changes observed in the rTMS group were accompanied by enhanced generalization of visuomotor adaptation across the arms, which was not the case in the sham group. Collectively, these findings confirm the involvement of M1 in use-dependent learning, and suggest that use-dependent learning can contribute not only to motor learning, but also to motor generalization.
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- Yuming Lei
- University of Miami, Department of Neurological Surgery, The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, Miami, FL 33136, United States; University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Department of Kinesiology, Milwaukee, WI 53201, United States.
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- University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Department of Kinesiology, Milwaukee, WI 53201, United States
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- University of Miami, Department of Neurological Surgery, The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, Miami, FL 33136, United States
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- University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Department of Kinesiology, Milwaukee, WI 53201, United States
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Hamel R, Trempe M, Bernier PM. Disruption of M1 Activity during Performance Plateau Impairs Consolidation of Motor Memories. J Neurosci 2017; 37:9197-206. [PMID: 28821677 DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3916-16.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2016] [Revised: 07/27/2017] [Accepted: 08/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Upon exposure to a new sensorimotor relationship, motor behaviors iteratively change early in adaptation but eventually stabilize as adaptation proceeds. Behavioral work suggests that motor memory consolidation is initiated upon the attainment of asymptotic levels of performance. Separate lines of evidence point to a critical role of the primary motor cortex (M1) in consolidation. However, a causal relationship between M1 activity during asymptote and consolidation has yet to be demonstrated. The present study investigated this issue in male and female participants using single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to interfere with postmovement activity in M1 in two behavioral phases of a ramp-and-hold visuomotor adaptation paradigm. TMS was either provided after each trial of the ramp phase of adaptation when a gradual increase in the visuomotor rotation caused movements to be changing, or after each trial of the hold phase of adaptation when the rotation was held constant and movements tended to stabilize. Consolidation was assessed by measuring performance on the same task 24 h later. Results revealed that TMS did not influence adaptation to the new visuomotor relationship in either condition. Critically, however, TMS disruption of M1 activity selectively impaired consolidation of motor memories when it was provided during the hold phase of adaptation. This effect did not take place when TMS was delivered over adjacent dorsal premotor cortex or when motor behaviors in late adaptation were prevented from plateauing. Together, these data suggest that the impaired consolidation stemmed from interference with mechanisms of repetition-dependent plasticity in M1.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT The present work demonstrates that TMS disruption of M1 activity impairs the consolidation of motor memories selectively when performance reaches asymptotic levels during sensorimotor adaptation. These findings provide evidence for a causal contribution of M1 to motor memory formation when movements tend to repeat, likely through mechanisms of repetition-dependent plasticity.
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Maxime B, Normand T, Léandre GL, Mathieu GR, Martin S. Reduced plantar sole sensitivity facilitates early adaptation to a visual rotation pointing task when standing upright. J Hum Kinet 2016; 52:65-74. [PMID: 28149394 PMCID: PMC5260518 DOI: 10.1515/hukin-2015-0194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/01/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Humans are capable of pointing to a target with accuracy. However, when vision is distorted through a visual rotation or mirror-reversed vision, the performance is initially degraded and thereafter improves with practice. There are suggestions this gradual improvement results from a sensorimotor recalibration involving initial gating of the somatosensory information from the pointing hand. In the present experiment, we examined if this process interfered with balance control by asking participants to point to targets with a visual rotation from a standing posture. This duality in processing sensory information (i.e., gating sensory signals from the hand while processing those arising from the control of balance) could generate initial interference leading to a degraded pointing performance. We hypothesized that if this is the case, the attenuation of plantar sole somatosensory information through cooling could reduce the sensorimotor interference, and facilitate the early adaptation (i.e. improvement in the pointing task). Results supported this hypothesis. These observations suggest that processing sensory information for balance control interferes with the sensorimotor recalibration process imposed by a pointing task when vision is rotated.
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- Billot Maxime
- Faculté de médecine, Département de kinésiologie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada; Vieillissement, Centre de recherche FRSQ du Centre hospitalier affilié universitaire de Québec, Québec, Canada
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- Faculté de médecine, Département de kinésiologie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada; Vieillissement, Centre de recherche FRSQ du Centre hospitalier affilié universitaire de Québec, Québec, Canada
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- Faculté de médecine, Département de kinésiologie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada; Vieillissement, Centre de recherche FRSQ du Centre hospitalier affilié universitaire de Québec, Québec, Canada
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van der Kooij K, Overvliet KE, Smeets JBJ. Temporally stable adaptation is robust, incomplete and specific. Eur J Neurosci 2016; 44:2708-2715. [PMID: 27469297 PMCID: PMC5129530 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.13355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2016] [Revised: 07/07/2016] [Accepted: 07/25/2016] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Sensorimotor adaptation, the process that reduces movement errors by learning from sensory feedback, is often studied within a session of about half an hour. Within such a single session, adaptation generally reaches plateau before errors are completely removed. However, adaptation may complete on longer timescales: the slow components of error‐based adaptation are associated with good retention. In this study, we tested how adaptation evolves over time by asking participants to perform six adaptation sessions on different days. In these sessions, participants performed a three‐dimensional reaching task while visual feedback about endpoint errors was rotated around the cyclopean eye. In addition, context specificity of the adaptation was addressed by measuring inter‐limb transfer and transfer to visual and proprioceptive perceptual tasks. We show that from the second session on, the adaptation was retained almost completely across sessions. However, after six learning sessions, adaptation still reached plateau before errors were completely removed. The adaptation was specific: the adaptation did neither transfer to the other hand, nor to the visual, and only marginally to the proprioceptive perceptual estimates. We conclude that motor adaptation is robust, specific and incomplete.
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- Katinka van der Kooij
- Department of Human Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, van der Boechorststraat 9, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Human Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, van der Boechorststraat 9, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Department of Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Human Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, van der Boechorststraat 9, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Luu TP, He Y, Brown S, Nakagome S, Contreras-Vidal JL. A Closed-loop Brain Computer Interface to a Virtual Reality Avatar: Gait Adaptation to Visual Kinematic Perturbations. Int Conf Virtual Rehabil 2015; 2015:30-37. [PMID: 27713915 DOI: 10.1109/icvr.2015.7358598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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The control of human bipedal locomotion is of great interest to the field of lower-body brain computer interfaces (BCIs) for rehabilitation of gait. While the feasibility of a closed-loop BCI system for the control of a lower body exoskeleton has been recently shown, multi-day closed-loop neural decoding of human gait in a virtual reality (BCI-VR) environment has yet to be demonstrated. In this study, we propose a real-time closed-loop BCI that decodes lower limb joint angles from scalp electroencephalography (EEG) during treadmill walking to control the walking movements of a virtual avatar. Moreover, virtual kinematic perturbations resulting in asymmetric walking gait patterns of the avatar were also introduced to investigate gait adaptation using the closed-loop BCI-VR system over a period of eight days. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of using a closed-loop BCI to learn to control a walking avatar under normal and altered visuomotor perturbations, which involved cortical adaptations. These findings have implications for the development of BCI-VR systems for gait rehabilitation after stroke and for understanding cortical plasticity induced by a closed-loop BCI system.
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- Trieu Phat Luu
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004, USA
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Following a change in the environment or motor apparatus, human subjects are able to rapidly compensate their movements to recover accurate performance. This ability to adapt is thought to be achieved through multiple, qualitatively distinct learning processes acting in parallel. It is unclear, however, what the relative contributions of these multiple processes are during learning. In particular, long-term memories in such paradigms have been extensively studied through the phenomenon of savings-faster adaptation to a given perturbation the second time it is experienced-but it is unclear which components of learning contribute to this effect. Here we show that distinct components of learning in an adaptation task can be dissociated based on the amount of preparation time they require. During adaptation, we occasionally forced subjects to generate movements at very low preparation times. Early in learning, subjects expressed only a limited amount of their prior learning in these trials, though performance improved gradually with further practice. Following washout, subjects exhibited a strong and persistent aftereffect in trials in which preparation time was limited. When subjects were exposed to the same perturbation twice in successive days, they adapted faster the second time. This savings effect was, however, not seen in movements generated at low preparation times. These results demonstrate that preparation time plays a critical role in the expression of some components of learning but not others. Savings is restricted to those components that require prolonged preparation to be expressed and might therefore reflect a declarative rather than procedural form of memory.
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Gaveau V, Prablanc C, Laurent D, Rossetti Y, Priot AE. Visuomotor adaptation needs a validation of prediction error by feedback error. Front Hum Neurosci 2014; 8:880. [PMID: 25408644 PMCID: PMC4219430 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2014] [Accepted: 10/13/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The processes underlying short-term plasticity induced by visuomotor adaptation to a shifted visual field are still debated. Two main sources of error can induce motor adaptation: reaching feedback errors, which correspond to visually perceived discrepancies between hand and target positions, and errors between predicted and actual visual reafferences of the moving hand. These two sources of error are closely intertwined and difficult to disentangle, as both the target and the reaching limb are simultaneously visible. Accordingly, the goal of the present study was to clarify the relative contributions of these two types of errors during a pointing task under prism-displaced vision. In “terminal feedback error” condition, viewing of their hand by subjects was allowed only at movement end, simultaneously with viewing of the target. In “movement prediction error” condition, viewing of the hand was limited to movement duration, in the absence of any visual target, and error signals arose solely from comparisons between predicted and actual reafferences of the hand. In order to prevent intentional corrections of errors, a subthreshold, progressive stepwise increase in prism deviation was used, so that subjects remained unaware of the visual deviation applied in both conditions. An adaptive aftereffect was observed in the “terminal feedback error” condition only. As far as subjects remained unaware of the optical deviation and self-assigned pointing errors, prediction error alone was insufficient to induce adaptation. These results indicate a critical role of hand-to-target feedback error signals in visuomotor adaptation; consistent with recent neurophysiological findings, they suggest that a combination of feedback and prediction error signals is necessary for eliciting aftereffects. They also suggest that feedback error updates the prediction of reafferences when a visual perturbation is introduced gradually and cognitive factors are eliminated or strongly attenuated.
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- Valérie Gaveau
- INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center Bron, France
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- INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center Bron, France ; Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 Villeurbanne, France
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- INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center Bron, France
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- INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center Bron, France ; Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 Villeurbanne, France ; Mouvement et Handicap, Hôpital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer, Hospices Civils de Lyon Bron, France
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- INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center Bron, France ; Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées (IRBA), Brétigny-sur-Orge cedex, France
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Semrau JA, Perlmutter JS, Thoroughman KA. Visuomotor adaptation in Parkinson's disease: effects of perturbation type and medication state. J Neurophysiol 2014; 111:2675-87. [PMID: 24694937 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00095.2013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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To perform simple everyday tasks, we use visual feedback from our external environment to generate and guide movements. However, tasks like reaching for a cup may become extremely difficult in movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease (PD), and it is unknown whether PD patients use visual information to compensate for motor deficiencies. We tested adaptation to changes in visual feedback of the hand in three subject groups, PD patients on daily levodopa (l-dopa) therapy (PD ON), PD patients off l-dopa (PD OFF), and age-matched control subjects, to determine the effects of PD on the visual control of movement. Subjects were tested on two classes of visual perturbations, one that altered visual direction of movement and one that altered visual extent of movement, allowing us to test adaptive sensitivity to changes in both movement direction (visual rotations) and extent (visual gain). The PD OFF group displayed more complete adaptation to visuomotor rotations compared with control subjects but initial, transient difficulty with adaptation to visual gain perturbations. The PD ON group displayed feedback control more sensitive to visual error compared with control subjects but compared with the PD OFF group had mild impairments during adaptation to changes in visual extent. We conclude that PD subjects can adapt to changes in visual information but that l-dopa may impair visual-based motor adaptation.
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- Jennifer A Semrau
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri; Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri; Department of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri; Program in Physical Therapy, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri; and Program in Occupational Therapy, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri; Program in Physical Therapy, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri; and
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In case of delayed visual feedback during visuomotor tasks, like in some sluggish computer games, humans can modulate their behavior to compensate for the delay. However, opinions on the nature of this compensation diverge. Some studies suggest that humans adapt to feedback delays with lasting changes in motor behavior (aftereffects) and a recalibration of time perception. Other studies have shown little or no evidence for such semipermanent recalibration in the temporal domain. We hypothesize that predictability of the reference signal (target to be tracked) is necessary for semipermanent delay adaptation. To test this hypothesis, we trained participants with a 200 ms visual feedback delay in a visually guided manual tracking task, varying the predictability of the reference signal between conditions, but keeping reference motion and feedback delay constant. In Experiment 1, we focused on motor behavior. Only training in the predictable condition brings about all of the adaptive changes and aftereffects expected from delay adaptation. In Experiment 2, we used a synchronization task to investigate perceived simultaneity (perceptuomotor learning). Supporting the hypothesis, participants recalibrated subjective visuomotor simultaneity only when trained in the predictable condition. Such a shift in perceived simultaneity was also observed in Experiment 3, using an interval estimation task. These results show that delay adaptation in motor control can modulate the perceived temporal alignment of vision and kinesthetically sensed movement. The coadaptation of motor prediction and target prediction (reference extrapolation) seems necessary for such genuine delay adaptation. This offers an explanation for divergent results in the literature.
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- Marieke Rohde
- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
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Dounskaia N, Wang W, Sainburg RL, Przybyla A. Preferred directions of arm movements are independent of visual perception of spatial directions. Exp Brain Res 2014; 232:575-86. [PMID: 24258530 PMCID: PMC10681152 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3766-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2013] [Accepted: 11/01/2013] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Directional preferences have previously been demonstrated during horizontal arm movements. These preferences were characterized by a tendency to exploit interaction torques for movement production at the shoulder or elbow, indicating that the preferred directions depend on biomechanical, and not on visual perception-based factors. We directly tested this hypothesis by systematically dissociating visual information from arm biomechanics. Sixteen subjects performed a free-stroke drawing task that required performance of fast strokes from the circle center toward the perimeter, while selecting stroke directions in a random order. Hand position was represented by a cursor displayed in the movement plane. The free-stroke drawing was performed twice, before and after visuomotor adaptation to a 30° clockwise rotation of the perceived hand path. The adaptation was achieved during practicing pointing movements to eight center-out targets. Directional preferences during performance of the free-stroke drawing task were revealed in ten out of the sixteen subjects. The orientation and strength of these preferences were largely the same in both conditions, showing no significant effect of the visuomotor adaptation. In both conditions, the major preferred directions were characterized by higher contribution of interaction torque to net torque at the shoulder as well as by relatively low inertial resistance and the sum of squared shoulder and elbow muscle torques. These results support the hypothesis that directional preferences are largely determined by biomechanical factors. However, this biomechanical effect can decrease or even disappear in some subjects when movements are performed in special conditions, such as the virtual environment used here.
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- Natalia Dounskaia
- Kinesiology Program, School of Nutrition and Health Promotion, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, 85004, USA,
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Noohi F, Boyden NB, Kwak Y, Humfleet J, Burke DT, Müller MLTM, Bohnen NI, Seidler RD. Association of COMT val158met and DRD2 G>T genetic polymorphisms with individual differences in motor learning and performance in female young adults. J Neurophysiol 2013; 111:628-40. [PMID: 24225542 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00457.2013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Individuals learn new skills at different rates. Given the involvement of corticostriatal pathways in some types of learning, variations in dopaminergic transmission may contribute to these individual differences. Genetic polymorphisms of the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) enzyme and dopamine receptor D2 (DRD2) genes partially determine cortical and striatal dopamine availability, respectively. Individuals who are homozygous for the COMT methionine (met) allele show reduced cortical COMT enzymatic activity, resulting in increased dopamine levels in the prefrontal cortex as opposed to individuals who are carriers of the valine (val) allele. DRD2 G-allele homozygotes benefit from a higher striatal dopamine level compared with T-allele carriers. We hypothesized that individuals who are homozygous for COMT met and DRD2 G alleles would show higher rates of motor learning. Seventy-two young healthy females (20 ± 1.9 yr) performed a sensorimotor adaptation task and a motor sequence learning task. A nonparametric mixed model ANOVA revealed that the COMT val-val group demonstrated poorer performance in the sequence learning task compared with the met-met group and showed a learning deficit in the visuomotor adaptation task compared with both met-met and val-met groups. The DRD2 TT group showed poorer performance in the sequence learning task compared with the GT group, but there was no difference between DRD2 genotype groups in adaptation rate. Although these results did not entirely come out as one might predict based on the known contribution of corticostriatal pathways to motor sequence learning, they support the role of genetic polymorphisms of COMT val158met (rs4680) and DRD2 G>T (rs 1076560) in explaining individual differences in motor performance and motor learning, dependent on task type.
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- Fatemeh Noohi
- School of Kinesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Generalization represents the ability to transfer what has been learned in one context to another context beyond limited experience. Because acquired motor representations often have to be reinstated in a different or novel environment, generalization is a crucial part of visuomotor learning. In daily life, training for new motor skills often occurs in a complex environment, in which dividing attentional resources for multiple stimuli is required. However, it is unknown how dividing attention during learning affects the generalization of visuomotor learning. We examined how divided attention during training modulates the generalization of visuomotor rotational adaptation. Participants were trained to adapt to one direction with or without dividing attention to a simultaneously presented visual detection task. Then, they had to generalize rotational adaptation to other untrained directions. We show that visuomotor training with divided attention multiplicatively reduces the gain and sharpens the tuning of the generalization function. We suggest that limiting attention narrowly restricts an internal model, reducing the range and magnitude of transfer. This result suggests that attention modulates a selective subpopulation of neurons in motor areas, those with directional tuning values in or near the training direction.
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- Patrick Bédard
- Department of Neuroscience and Brown Institute for Brain Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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Urbain C, Houyoux E, Albouy G, Peigneux P. Consolidation through the looking-glass: sleep-dependent proactive interference on visuomotor adaptation in children. J Sleep Res 2013; 23:44-52. [PMID: 24010959 DOI: 10.1111/jsr.12082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2013] [Accepted: 07/15/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Although a beneficial role of post-training sleep for declarative memory has been consistently evidenced in children, as in adults, available data suggest that procedural memory consolidation does not benefit from sleep in children. However, besides the absence of performance gains in children, sleep-dependent plasticity processes involved in procedural memory consolidation might be expressed through differential interference effects on the learning of novel but related procedural material. To test this hypothesis, 32 10-12-year-old children were trained on a motor rotation adaptation task. After either a sleep or a wake period, they were first retested on the same rotation applied at learning, thus assessing offline sleep-dependent changes in performance, then on the opposite (unlearned) rotation to assess sleep-dependent modulations in proactive interference coming from the consolidated visuomotor memory trace. Results show that children gradually improve performance over the learning session, showing effective adaptation to the imposed rotation. In line with previous findings, no sleep-dependent changes in performance were observed for the learned rotation. However, presentation of the opposite, unlearned deviation elicited significantly higher interference effects after post-training sleep than wakefulness in children. Considering that a definite feature of procedural motor memory and skill acquisition is the implementation of highly automatized motor behaviour, thus lacking flexibility, our results suggest a better integration and/or automation or motor adaptation skills after post-training sleep, eventually resulting in higher proactive interference effects on untrained material.
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- Charline Urbain
- UR2NF, Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Research Group at CRCN, Center for Research in Cognition and Neurosciences and UNI, ULB Neurosciences Institute, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium; Laboratoire de Cartographie Fonctionnelle du Cerveau (LCFC), Erasme Hospital, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
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Bernard JA, Seidler RD. Cerebellar contributions to visuomotor adaptation and motor sequence learning: an ALE meta-analysis. Front Hum Neurosci 2013; 7:27. [PMID: 23403800 PMCID: PMC3566602 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2012] [Accepted: 01/22/2013] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Cerebellar contributions to motor learning are well-documented. For example, under some conditions, patients with cerebellar damage are impaired at visuomotor adaptation and at acquiring new action sequences. Moreover, cerebellar activation has been observed in functional MRI (fMRI) investigations of various motor learning tasks. The early phases of motor learning are cognitively demanding, relying on processes such as working memory, which have been linked to the cerebellum as well. Here, we investigated cerebellar contributions to motor learning using activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analysis. This allowed us to determine, across studies and tasks, whether or not the location of cerebellar activation is constant across differing motor learning tasks, and whether or not cerebellar activation in early learning overlaps with that observed for working memory. We found that different regions of the anterior cerebellum are engaged for implicit and explicit sequence learning and visuomotor adaptation, providing additional evidence for the modularity of cerebellar function. Furthermore, we found that lobule VI of the cerebellum, which has been implicated in working memory, is activated during the early stages of explicit motor sequence learning. This provides evidence for a potential role for the cerebellum in the cognitive processing associated with motor learning. However, though lobule VI was activated across both early explicit sequence learning and working memory studies, there was no spatial overlap between these two regions. Together, our results support the idea of modularity in the formation of internal representations of new motor tasks in the cerebellum, and highlight the cognitive processing relied upon during the early phases of motor skill learning.
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- Jessica A Bernard
- Department of Neurology, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine Aurora, CO, USA
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Honda T, Hirashima M, Nozaki D. Habituation to feedback delay restores degraded visuomotor adaptation by altering both sensory prediction error and the sensitivity of adaptation to the error. Front Psychol 2012; 3:540. [PMID: 23444032 PMCID: PMC3581262 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2012] [Accepted: 11/14/2012] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Sensory prediction error, which is the difference between actual and predicted sensory consequences, is a driving force of motor learning. Thus, appropriate temporal associations between the actual sensory feedback signals and motor commands for predicting sensory consequences are crucial for the brain to calculate the sensory prediction error accurately. Indeed, it has been shown that artificially introduced delays in visual feedback degrade motor learning. However, our previous study has showed that degraded adaptation is alleviated by prior habituation to the delay. Here, we investigate how the motor learning system accomplishes this alleviation. After the subjects habituated reaching movements in either 0- or 200-ms delayed cursor, visual rotation of 10° was imposed to the cursor with varying delay (0, 100, 200, or 300 ms) with each delay imposed in at least 1 out of 5–6 trials. Then, the aftereffect in the next trial was quantified to evaluate the adaptation response. After habituation to the 0-ms delayed cursor, the adaptation response was maximal when the visual feedback of the perturbation was provided with 0-ms delay and gradually decreased as the delay increased. On the other hand, habituation to the 200-ms delayed cursor alleviated the degraded adaptation response to the visual perturbation imposed during the 200-ms and longer delay (300 ms). However, habituation did not affect the adaptation response to the visual perturbation imposed during delays (0- and 100-ms delay) shorter than the habituated delay (200 ms). These results may be explained by assuming that habituation to the delayed feedback not only shifts the position of the hand predicted by motor command toward the delayed cursor positions, but also increases the degree to which the brain uses a certain amount of sensory prediction error to correct a motor command.
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- Takuya Honda
- Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan ; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Tokyo, Japan ; Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International Seika-cho, Japan
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Doyon J, Korman M, Morin A, Dostie V, Hadj Tahar A, Benali H, Karni A, Ungerleider LG, Carrier J. Contribution of night and day sleep vs. simple passage of time to the consolidation of motor sequence and visuomotor adaptation learning. Exp Brain Res 2009; 195:15-26. [PMID: 19277618 PMCID: PMC2752878 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-009-1748-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 173] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2008] [Accepted: 02/16/2009] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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There is increasing evidence supporting the notion that the contribution of sleep to consolidation of motor skills depends on the nature of the task used in practice. We compared the role of three post-training conditions in the expression of delayed gains on two different motor skill learning tasks: finger tapping sequence learning (FTSL) and visuomotor adaptation (VMA). Subjects in the DaySleep and ImmDaySleep conditions were trained in the morning and at noon, respectively, afforded a 90-min nap early in the afternoon and were re-tested 12 h post-training. In the NightSleep condition, subjects were trained in the evening on either of the two learning paradigms and re-tested 12 h later following sleep, while subjects in the NoSleep condition underwent their training session in the morning and were re-tested 12 h later without any intervening sleep. The results of the FTSL task revealed that post-training sleep (day-time nap or night-time sleep) significantly promoted the expression of delayed gains at 12 h post-training, especially if sleep was afforded immediately after training. In the VMA task, however, there were no significant differences in the gains expressed at 12 h post-training in the three conditions. These findings suggest that "off-line" performance gains reflecting consolidation processes in the FTSL task benefit from sleep, even a short nap, while the simple passage of time is as effective as time in sleep for consolidation of VMA to occur. They also imply that procedural memory consolidation processes differ depending on the nature of task demands.
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- Julien Doyon
- Functional Neuroimaging Unit, University of Montreal Geriatric Institute, 4565 Queen-Mary, Montreal, QC H3W 1W5, Canada.
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We previously reported that opposite arm adaptation to visuomotor rotations improved the initial direction of right arm movements in right-handers, whereas it only improved the final position accuracy of their left arm movements. We now investigate the pattern of interlimb transfer following adaptation to 30 degrees visuomotor rotations in left-handers to determine whether the direction of transfer depends on handedness. Our results indicate unambiguous transfer across the arms. In terms of final position accuracy, the direction of transfer is opposite to that observed in right-handers, such that transfer only occurred from the left to the right arm movements. Directional accuracy also showed the opposite pattern of transfer to that of right-handers: initial movement direction, calculated at peak tangential acceleration, transferred only from right to left arms. When movement direction was measured later in the movement, at peak tangential velocity, asymmetrical transfer also occurred, such that greater transfer occurred from right to left arms. However, a small, but significant influence of opposite arm adaptation also occurred for the left arm, which might reflect differences in the use of the nondominant arm between left- and right-handers. Overall, our results indicate that left-handers show a mirror-imaged pattern of interlimb transfer in visuomotor adaptation to that previously reported for right-handers. This pattern of transfer is consistent with the hypothesis that asymmetry in interlimb transfer is dependent on differential specialization of the dominant and nondominant hemisphere/limb systems for trajectory and positional control, respectively.
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- Jinsung Wang
- Department of Kinesiology, The Pennsylvania State University, 266 Recreation Bldg, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
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