ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022
Motor learning without movement.
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- Attention Defines the Context for Implicit Sensorimotor Adaptation.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
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- Input device matters for measures of behaviour in online experiments.Psychological research · 2024Article
- Implicit sensorimotor learning in ballistic movement for transporting an object to a target.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Imagery practice of motor skills without conscious awareness?: a commentary to Frank et al.Psychological research · 2024Review
- Minimal impact of chronic proprioceptive loss on implicit sensorimotor adaptation and perceived movement outcome.Journal of neurophysiology · 2024Article
- Candidate brain regions for motor imagery practice: a commentary on Rieger et al., 2023.Psychological research · 2024Review
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- Motor cortex retains and reorients neural dynamics during motor imagery.Nature human behaviour · 2024Article
- Advanced feedback enhances sensorimotor adaptation.Current biology : CB · 2024Article
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Abstract
Prediction errors guide many forms of learning, providing teaching signals that help us improve our performance. Implicit motor adaptation, for instance, is thought to be driven by sensory prediction errors (SPEs), which occur when the expected and observed consequences of a movement differ. Traditionally, SPE computation is thought to require movement execution. However, recent work suggesting that the brain can generate sensory predictions based on motor imagery or planning alone calls this assumption into question. Here, by measuring implicit motor adaptation during a visuomotor task, we tested whether motor planning and well-timed sensory feedback are sufficient for adaptation. Human participants were cued to reach to a target and were, on a subset of trials, rapidly cued to withhold these movements. Errors displayed both on trials with and without movements induced single-trial adaptation. Learning following trials without movements persisted even when movement trials had never been paired with errors and when the direction of movement and sensory feedback trajectories were decoupled. These observations indicate that the brain can compute errors that drive implicit adaptation without generating overt movements, leading to the adaptation of motor commands that are not overtly produced.
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