| Title |
Invariant errors reveal limitations in motor correction rather than constraints on error sensitivity
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Communications Biology, March 2018
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| DOI | 10.1038/s42003-018-0021-y |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Hyosub E. Kim, J. Ryan Morehead, Darius E. Parvin, Reza Moazzezi, Richard B. Ivry |
| Abstract |
Implicit sensorimotor adaptation is traditionally described as a process of error reduction, whereby a fraction of the error is corrected for with each movement. Here, in our study of healthy human participants, we characterize two constraints on this learning process: the size of adaptive corrections is only related to error size when errors are smaller than 6°, and learning functions converge to a similar level of asymptotic learning over a wide range of error sizes. These findings are problematic for current models of sensorimotor adaptation, and point to a new theoretical perspective in which learning is constrained by the size of the error correction, rather than sensitivity to error. |
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| United States | 7 | 27% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 15% |
| Australia | 2 | 8% |
| Canada | 2 | 8% |
| Japan | 1 | 4% |
| Belgium | 1 | 4% |
| Germany | 1 | 4% |
| France | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 7 | 27% |
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| Members of the public | 17 | 65% |
| Scientists | 8 | 31% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 4% |
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| Unknown | 110 | 100% |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 32 | 29% |
| Student > Master | 17 | 15% |
| Researcher | 12 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 14 | 13% |
| Unknown | 21 | 19% |
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| Neuroscience | 34 | 31% |
| Psychology | 11 | 10% |
| Sports and Recreations | 8 | 7% |
| Engineering | 7 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 16 | 15% |
| Unknown | 31 | 28% |
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