ArticleJournal of neurophysiology2020
Why is the explicit component of motor adaptation limited in elderly adults?
Article in Journal of neurophysiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07367711 (Multifaced Approach of Assessing Upper Extremity Proprioception in Breast Cancer Patients With Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy), which is not on this map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Multifaced Approach of Assessing Upper Extremity Proprioception in Breast Cancer Patients With Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A systematic investigation reveals dissociable effects of ageing on implicit and explicit components of sensorimotor learning.Nature human behaviour · 2026Pooled it
- Age-related changes in proprioception are of limited size, outcome-dependent and task-dependent.GeroScience · 2026Article
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- Effect of simple motor exercise on motor adaptation in complex dynamic tasks: exploring age-related variations.Journal of neurophysiology · 2025Article
- Age and self-selected walking speed impact the generalization of locomotor memories across contexts.Journal of neurophysiology · 2025Article
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- Explicit and implicit locomotor learning in individuals with chronic hemiparetic stroke.Journal of neurophysiology · 2024Article
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- Differential Aging Effects on Implicit and Explicit Sensorimotor Learning.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Explicit and implicit locomotor learning in individuals with chronic hemiparetic stroke.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Large-scale citizen science reveals predictors of sensorimotor adaptation.Nature human behaviour · 2024Article
- Aging exerts a limited influence on the perception of self-generated and externally generated touch.Journal of neurophysiology · 2023Article
- Cognitive Impairments After Stroke Do Not Attenuate Explicit Visuomotor Adaptation in Reaching and Savings With the Unaffected Arm.Neurorehabilitation and neural repair · 2023Article
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- Age-related decline of online visuomotor adaptation: a combined effect of deteriorations of motor anticipation and execution.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023Article
- Age-related enhancement in visuomotor learning by a dual-task.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Using Artificial Intelligence for Assistance Systems to Bring Motor Learning Principles into Real World Motor Tasks.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
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Abstract
The cognitive component of motor adaptation declines with aging. Yet, in other motor tasks, older adults appear to rely on cognition to improve their motor performance. It is unknown why older adults are not able to do so in motor adaptation. To solve this apparent contradiction, we tested the possibility that older adults require more cognitive resources in unperturbed reaching compared with younger adults, which leaves fewer resources available for the cognitive aspect of motor adaptation. Two cognitive-motor dual-task experiments were designed to test this. The cognitive load of unperturbed reaching was assessed via dual-task costs during the baseline period of visuomotor rotation experiments, which provided us with an estimation of the amount of cognitive resources used during unperturbed reaching. However, we did not observe a link between dual-task costs and explicit adaptation in both experiments and, therefore, failed to confirm this hypothesis. Instead, we observed that explicit adaptation was mainly associated with visuospatial working memory capacity. This suggests that visuospatial working memory of an individual might be linked to the extent of explicit adaptation for young and older adults.
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