ArticlePloS one2020
The effect of age on visuomotor learning processes.
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- A systematic investigation reveals dissociable effects of ageing on implicit and explicit components of sensorimotor learning.Nature human behaviour · 2026Pooled it
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- Revisiting the explicit-implicit additivity assumption in visuomotor adaptation.Journal of neurophysiology · 2026Article
- Validation and Clinical Application of a Developed Pedal Coordination Assessment Device for Older Drivers.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Unlocking motor reserve: behavioral and neuroimaging correlates of locomotor adaptability from youth to old age.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2025Article
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- Differential Aging Effects on Implicit and Explicit Sensorimotor Learning.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Large-scale citizen science reveals predictors of sensorimotor adaptation.Nature human behaviour · 2024Article
- Visuomotor adaptation across the lifespan.PloS one · 2024Article
- Older and younger adults differ in time course of skill acquisition but not in overall improvement in a bimanual visuomotor tracking task.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Article
- Motor adaptation does not differ when a perturbation is introduced abruptly or gradually.Experimental brain research · 2023Article
- Cognitive Impairments After Stroke Do Not Attenuate Explicit Visuomotor Adaptation in Reaching and Savings With the Unaffected Arm.Neurorehabilitation and neural repair · 2023Article
- Boost your brain: a simple 100% normobaric oxygen treatment improves human motor learning processes.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Age-related decline of online visuomotor adaptation: a combined effect of deteriorations of motor anticipation and execution.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023Article
- Age-related impairments and influence of visual feedback when learning to stand with unexpected sensorimotor delays.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023Article
- Effect of repeated explicit instructions on visuomotor adaptation and intermanual transfer.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
- Quantitatively assessing aging effects in rapid motor behaviours: a cross-sectional study.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2022Article
- Improved proprioception does not benefit visuomotor adaptation.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
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Abstract
Knowing where our limbs are in space is essential for moving and for adapting movements to various changes in our environments and bodies. The ability to adapt movements declines with age, and age-related cognitive decline can explain a decreased ability to adopt and deploy explicit, cognitive strategies in motor learning. Age-related sensory decline could also lead to a reduced fidelity of sensory position signals and error signals, each of which can affect implicit motor adaptation. Here we investigate two estimates of limb position; one based on proprioception, the other on predicted sensory consequences of movements. Each is considered a measure of an implicit adaptation process and may be affected by both age and cognitive strategies. Both older (n = 38) and younger (n = 42) adults adapted to a 30° visuomotor rotation in a centre-out reaching task. We make an explicit, cognitive strategy available to half of participants in each age group with a detailed instruction. After training, we first quantify the explicit learning elicited by instruction. Instructed older adults initially use the provided strategy slightly less than younger adults but show a similar ability to evoke it after training. This indicates that cognitive explanations for age-related decline in motor learning are limited. In contrast, training induced much larger shifts of state estimates of hand location in older adults compared to younger adults. This is not modulated by strategy instructions, and appears driven by recalibrated proprioception, which is almost twice as large in older adults, while predictions might not be updated in older adults. This means that in healthy aging, some implicit processes may be compensating for other changes to maintain motor capabilities, while others also show age-related decline (data: https://osf.io/qzhmy).
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