Intermanual transfer of proprioceptive shift in left-handers

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon M. Redding ◽  
Benjamin Wallace
2009 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. S203
Author(s):  
Kaoru Amemiya ◽  
Tomohiro Ishizu ◽  
Tomoaki Ayabe ◽  
Shozo Kojima

2014 ◽  
Vol 233 (3) ◽  
pp. 829-837
Author(s):  
Emily R. Boeving ◽  
Agnès Lacreuse ◽  
William D. Hopkins ◽  
Kimberley A. Phillips ◽  
Melinda A. Novak ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Jack De Havas ◽  
Patrick Haggard ◽  
Hiroaki Gomi ◽  
Sven Bestmann ◽  
Yuji Ikegaya ◽  
...  

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 indeed 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, while 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 the aftereffect is indeed 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.


2011 ◽  
Vol 106 (6) ◽  
pp. 3157-3172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan A. Taylor ◽  
Greg J. Wojaczynski ◽  
Richard B. Ivry

Studies of intermanual transfer have been used to probe representations formed during skill acquisition. We employ a new method that provides a continuous assay of intermanual transfer, intermixing right- and left-hand trials while limiting visual feedback to right-hand movements. We manipulated the degree of awareness of the visuomotor rotation, introducing a 22.5° perturbation in either an abrupt single step or gradually in ∼1° increments every 10 trials. Intermanual transfer was observed with the direction of left-hand movements shifting in the opposite direction of the rotation over the course of training. The transfer on left-hand trials was less than that observed in the right hand. Moreover, the magnitude of transfer was larger in our mixed-limb design compared with the standard blocked design in which transfer is only probed at the end of training. Transfer was similar in the abrupt and gradual groups, suggesting that awareness of the perturbation has little effect on intermanual transfer. In a final experiment, participants were provided with a strategy to offset an abrupt rotation, a method that has been shown to increase error over the course of training due to the operation of sensorimotor adaptation. This deterioration was also observed on left-hand probe trials, providing further support that awareness has little effect on intermanual transfer. These results indicate that intermanual transfer is not dependent on the implementation of cognitively assisted strategies that participants might adopt when they become aware that the visuomotor mapping has been perturbed. Rather, the results indicate that the information available to processes involved in adaptation entails some degree of effector independence.


2012 ◽  
Vol 506 (2) ◽  
pp. 346-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spencer J. Hayes ◽  
Matthew Andrew ◽  
Digby Elliott ◽  
James W. Roberts ◽  
Simon J. Bennett

2010 ◽  
Vol 121 (3) ◽  
pp. 402-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Djamel Bensmail ◽  
Anna-Sophia Sarfeld ◽  
Gereon R. Fink ◽  
Dennis A. Nowak

Perception ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
R B Welch

Arguments and evidence are presented that prism adaptation results in a third end state in addition to the ‘traditional’ components of ‘proprioceptive shift’ and ‘visual shift’. That is, under certain conditions (most importantly, ones involving error-corrective feedback), exposure to prism-displaced vision induces a motor-learning component, referred to here as an ‘assimilated corrective response’. Thus the postexposure error in target pointing, the ‘negative aftereffect’, is postulated to be the algebraic sum of proprioceptive shift, visual shift, and an assimilated corrective response—at least in certain situations. Support for the existence of this third component as a form of learning is seen in the fact that it occurs primarily when prism exposure involves target-pointing experience, and that it is apparently subject to the effects of some ‘learning variables’.


2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon M. Redding ◽  
Benjamin Wallace

2004 ◽  
Vol 159 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regine K. Lange ◽  
Ben Godde ◽  
Christoph Braun

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