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ArticleScientific reports2023

Reciprocal facilitation between mental and visuomotor rotations.

Jianfei Guo, Joo-Hyun Song

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Article in Scientific reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Motor adaptation is reduced by symbolic compared to sensory feedback.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jianfei GuoDepartment of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Box 1821, Providence, RI, 02912, USA. Jianfei_guo@alumni.brown.edu.
Joo-Hyun SongDepartment of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Box 1821, Providence, RI, 02912, USA. joo-hyun_song@brown.edu.
Brown University · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Humans exhibit remarkably complex cognitive abilities and adaptive behavior in daily life. Cognitive operation in the "mental workspace," such as mentally rotating a piece of luggage to fit into fixed trunk space, helps us maintain and manipulate information on a moment-to-moment basis. Skill acquisition in the "sensorimotor workspace," such as learning a new mapping between the magnitude of new vehicle movement and wheel turn, allows us to adjust our behavior to changing environmental or internal demands to maintain appropriate motor performance. While this cognitive and sensorimotor synergy is at the root of adaptive behavior in the real world, their interplay has been understudied due to a divide-and-conquer approach. We evaluated whether a separate domain-specific or common domain-general operation drives mental and sensorimotor rotational transformations. We observed that participants improved the efficiency of mental rotation speed after the visuomotor rotation training, and their learning rate for visuomotor adaptation also improved after their mental rotation training. Such bidirectional transfer between two widely different tasks highlights the remarkable reciprocal plasticity and demonstrates a common transformation mechanism between two intertwined workspaces. Our findings urge the necessity of an explicitly integrated approach to enhance our understanding of the dynamic interdependence between cognitive and sensorimotor mechanisms.

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LearningPsychomotor PerformanceAdaptation, PhysiologicalAdaptation, PsychologicalHumansMovement

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PMID36646722
PMCPMC9842739
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