Citation

Marinovic W, Poh E, de Rugy A, Carroll TJ. Elife 2017; 6: e26713.

Affiliation

Centre for Sensorimotor Performance, School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, dLife Sciences Plublications, Ltd)

DOI

10.7554/eLife.26713

PMID

29058670

PMCID

PMC5662285

Abstract

The characteristics of goal-directed actions tend to resemble those of previously executed actions, but it is unclear whether such effects depend strictly on action history, or also reflect context-dependent processes related to predictive motor planning. Here we manipulated the time available to initiate movements after a target was specified, and studied the effects of predictable movement sequences, to systematically dissociate effects of the most recently executed movement from the movement required next. We found that directional biases due to recent movement history strongly depend upon movement preparation time, suggesting an important contribution from predictive planning. However predictive biases co-exist with an independent source of bias that depends only on recent movement history. The results indicate that past experience influences movement execution through a combination of temporally-stable processes that are strictly use-dependent, and dynamically-evolving and context-dependent processes that reflect prediction of future actions.

Language: en

Keywords

human; learning; movement; neuroscience; sensorimotor control