Unconscious cultural cognitive biases in explicit processes of visuomotor adaptation.

ABSTRACT: Studies have shown that explicit strategies make a significant contribution to visuomotor adaptation. However, little attention has been given to potential unconscious cognitive biases in these strategies, despite that they involve a sequence of cognitive decision-making processes. To reveal the possible cultural biases involved in motor learning, we compared Norwegian and Japanese participants in a visuomotor adaptation task using a verbal report paradigm. The results showed that Japanese participants aimed at locations more deviant from the target to account for rotated visual feedback. Additionally, a greater proportion of Japanese participants changed their aiming direction more frequently than Norwegian participants, even after successfully hitting the target. However, both groups sho

SUBMITTER: Yamada C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12222529 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature