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The effect of aborting ongoing movements on end point position estimation.

Yoshihiro Itaguchi1, Kazuyoshi Fukuzawa

  • 1Psychology Section, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, 1-24-1 Toyama, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, 162-8644, Japan, itaguchi@ruri.waseda.jp.

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Stopping fast movements unexpectedly causes an underestimation of limb position. This suggests motor commands to abort movement influence our sense of where our body is in space.

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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Motor Control
  • Proprioception

Background:

  • Accurate proprioception is crucial for motor control.
  • Understanding how movement cessation affects position estimation is key to understanding proprioceptive recalibration.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of motor commands for aborting movement on limb position estimation.
  • To determine if the magnitude of abort commands influences position estimation bias.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed visually guided reaching movements on a horizontal plane.
  • Arm position was estimated solely via proprioception after movement arrest.
  • Movement arrest was triggered by an auditory cue or an obstacle at varying speeds.

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Main Results:

  • Voluntarily stopping fast movements led to increased position underestimation.
  • Underestimation bias correlated positively with movement velocity.
  • An inverted-U-shaped bias pattern was observed, except when fast movements were voluntarily aborted.

Conclusions:

  • Voluntarily aborting fast movements introduces a negative bias in position estimation.
  • This bias supports the role of motor commands in proprioceptive recalibration.
  • Spatially probabilistic inference and signal-dependent noise may explain observed effects.