TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - An implicit memory of errors limits human sensorimotor adaptation
JO  - Nature human behaviour
A1  - Albert, Scott T.
A1  - Jang, Jihoon
A1  - Sheahan, Hannah R.
A1  - Teunissen, Lonneke
A1  - Vandevoorde, Koenraad
A1  - Herzfeld, David J.
A1  - Shadmehr, Reza
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - During extended motor adaptation, learning appears to saturate despite persistence of residual errors. This adaptation limit is not fixed but varies with perturbation variance; when variance is high, residual errors become larger. These changes in total adaptation could relate to either implicit or explicit learning systems. Here, we found that when adaptation relied solely on the explicit system, residual errors disappeared and learning was unaltered by perturbation variability. In contrast, when learning depended entirely, or in part, on implicit learning, residual errors reappeared. Total implicit adaptation decreased in the high-variance environment due to changes in error sensitivity, not in forgetting. These observations suggest a model in which the implicit system becomes more sensitive to errors when they occur in a consistent direction. Thus, residual errors in motor adaptation are at least in part caused by an implicit learning system that modulates its error sensitivity in response to the consistency of past errors.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2397-3374
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-01036-x
ID  - ref1
ER  -