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NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
Volume 541, Issue -, Pages 243-247Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.02.045
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Vision; Proprioception; Transfer; Human; Motor learning
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- NCATS NIH HHS [UL1 TR000055] Funding Source: Medline
- NICHD NIH HHS [K01 HD050245] Funding Source: Medline
- EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH &HUMAN DEVELOPMENT [K01HD050245] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCING TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES [UL1TR000055] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Separating visual and proprioceptive information in terms of workspace locations during reaching movement has been shown to disturb transfer of visuomotor adaptation across the arms. Here, we investigated whether separating visual and motor workspaces would also disturb generalization of visuomotor adaptation across movement conditions within the same arm. Subjects were divided into four experimental groups (plus three control groups). The first two groups adapted to a visual rotation under a dissociation condition in which the targets for reaching movement were presented in midline while their arm performed reaching movement laterally. Following that, they were tested in an association condition in which the visual and motor workspaces were combined in midline or laterally. The other two groups first adapted to the rotation in one association condition (medial or lateral), then were tested in the other association condition. The latter groups demonstrated complete transfer from the training to the generalization session, whereas the former groups demonstrated substantially limited transfer. These findings suggest that when visual and motor workspaces are separated, two internal models (vision-based one, proprioception-based one) are formed, and that a conflict between the two disrupts the development of an overall representation that underlies adaptation to a novel visuomotor transform. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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