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EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH
Volume 139, Issue 2, Pages 248-253Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s002210100768
Keywords
motor learning; adaptation; manual tracking; discordance; mental rotation
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Using the multiple-exposure approach, we investigated sensorimotor adaptation by exposing human subjects to different angles of visual rotation in a tracking task. Generally, the tracking error was high at the onset of the visual rotation and gradually declined towards the baseline level during the exposure period. In experiment A, we confirmed that the initial tracking error increases more than proportionally with the angle of rotation. In experiment C, we were unable to confirm inter-manual transfer, and attribute this discrepancy with previous literature to details of the experimental tasks. In our main experiment, B, we found that pre-exposure to 45 degrees or 60 degrees of visual rotation facilitated the subsequent adaptation to a 90 degrees rotation, with the facilitatory effect being more pronounced following the 60 degrees rotation. We interpret this finding as evidence that adaptation is achieved by a gradual process, which progresses from small angles of output transformation through intermediate values up to the prescribed angle of rotation.
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