Motor adaptation is reduced by symbolic compared to sensory feedback.

ABSTRACT: Motor adaptation - the process of reducing motor errors through feedback and practice - is an essential feature of human competence, allowing us to move accurately in dynamic and novel environments. Adaptation typically results from sensory feedback, with most learning driven by visual and proprioceptive feedback that arises with the movement. In humans, motor adaptation can also be driven by symbolic feedback. In the present study, we examine how implicit and explicit components of motor adaptation are modulated by symbolic feedback. We conducted three reaching experiments involving over 400 human participants to compare sensory and symbolic feedback using a task in which both types of learning processes could be operative (Experiment 1) or tasks in which learning was expected to be limit

SUBMITTER: Chen Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11244888 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature