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ArticlePsychonomic bulletin & review2020

The perils of learning to move while speaking: One-sided interference between speech and visuomotor adaptation.

Daniel R Lametti, Marcus Y M Quek, Calum B Prescott, John-Stuart Brittain, Kate E Watkins

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Article in Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. Differential Effects of Cerebellar Degeneration on Feedforward versus Feedback Control across Speech and Reaching Movements.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021
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  18. The Role of Sensory Feedback in Developmental Stuttering: A Review.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Daniel R LamettiDepartment of Psychology, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. danielrlametti@gmail.com.
Marcus Y M QuekDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Calum B PrescottDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
John-Stuart BrittainSchool of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Kate E WatkinsDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
University of Oxford · GBUniversity of Birmingham · GB

Funding

British Academy Postdoctoral FellowshipNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grant
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Our understanding of the adaptive processes that shape sensorimotor behavior is largely derived from studying isolated movements. Studies of visuomotor adaptation, in which participants adapt cursor movements to rotations of the cursor's screen position, have led to prominent theories of motor control. In response to changes in visual feedback of movements, explicit (cognitive) and implicit (automatic) learning processes adapt movements to counter errors. However, movements rarely occur in isolation. The extent to which explicit and implicit processes drive sensorimotor adaptation when multiple movements occur simultaneously, as in the real world, remains unclear. Here we address this problem in the context of speech and hand movements. Participants spoke in-time with rapid, hand-driven cursor movements. Using real-time alterations of vowel sound feedback, and visual rotations of the cursor's screen position, we induced sensorimotor adaptation in one or both movements simultaneously. Across three experiments (n = 60, n = 48 and n = 76, respectively), we demonstrate that visuomotor adaptation is markedly impaired by simultaneous speech adaptation, and the impairment is specific to the explicit learning process in visuomotor adaptation. In contrast, visuomotor adaptation had no impact on speech adaptation. The results demonstrate that the explicit learning process in visuomotor adaptation is sensitive to movements in other motor domains. They suggest that some forms of speech adaptation may lack an explicit learning process altogether.

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Adaptation, PhysiologicalAdultFemaleHumansLearningMaleMotor ActivityPsychomotor PerformanceSpeechVisual PerceptionYoung AdultAdaptationSensorimotor adaptationSpeech productionVisuomotor adaptation

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PMID32212105
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