"Leap before you look": Conditions that suppress explicit, knowledge-based learning during visuomotor adaptation.

ABSTRACT: When learning a novel visuomotor mapping (e.g., mirror writing), accuracy can improve quickly through explicit, knowledge-based learning (e.g., aim left to go right), but after practice, implicit or procedural learning takes over, producing fast, natural movements. This procedural learning occurs automatically, whereas it has recently been found that knowledge-based learning can be suppressed by the gradual introduction of the novel mapping when participants must make fast movements and visuomotor perturbations are small (e.g., 30° rotations). We explored the range of task instructions, perturbation parameters, and feedback that preclude or encourage this suppression. Using a reaching task with a rotation between screen position and movement direction, we found that knowledge-based learnin

SUBMITTER: Savalia T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11412309 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature