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Area of Science:

  • Motor control and learning
  • Neuroscience of motor adaptation
  • Cognitive psychology of skill acquisition

Background:

  • Implicit learning in motor adaptation is traditionally considered slow.
  • Understanding the time course of implicit processes during normal motor adaptation is limited.
  • Implicit learning involves changes in internal models and limb position state estimates.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the time course of implicit learning during normal motor adaptation.
  • To measure changes in internal models and state estimates after each training trial.
  • To challenge the conventional belief of slow implicit learning.

Main Methods:

  • Participants underwent perturbed reach training.
  • Reach aftereffects and hand localization shifts were measured after each trial.
  • Data was compared against predictions from a two-rate model of motor learning.

Main Results:

  • Implicit changes reached near asymptote within one to three perturbed training trials.
  • Observed implicit learning speed was not predicted by the slow process of a two-rate model.
  • Motor adaptation involves significantly faster implicit processes than conventionally assumed.

Conclusions:

  • Implicit motor learning is considerably faster than traditionally believed.
  • These findings have significant implications for designing effective rehabilitation and skills training programs.
  • Revising models of motor learning is necessary to account for rapid implicit processes.