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Jana Masselink¹, Markus Lappe¹

¹Institute for Psychology and Otto Creutzfeldt Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Muenster, Münster, Germany.

|March 9, 2021

Summary

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Sensorimotor learning recalibrates eye movements and space perception. This study reveals that learning updates spatial perception after saccade completion, not based on visual prediction error.

Keywords:

computational biology corollary discharge forward model human motor learning neuroscience saccadic adaptation systems biology trans-saccadic perception

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Cognitive Science
Motor Control

Background:

Sensorimotor learning adjusts motor output for accuracy.
Saccadic eye movement learning impacts space perception, indicating a dissociation between executed movements and their internal representation via corollary discharge (CD).
Current understanding posits CD-based visual prediction error drives learning.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the dissociation between saccadic eye movements and their internal representations during learning.
To determine if sensorimotor learning is driven by visual prediction error or an alternative mechanism.
To model the underlying plasticity contributing to motor and perceptual changes.

Main Methods:

Estimating internal saccade representation using pre- and trans-saccadic target localization.
Developing a computational model incorporating plasticity in spatial target perception, motor commands, and a forward dynamics model.
Analyzing the timing and nature of error signals guiding learning.

Main Results:

The internal saccade representation decouples from the actual saccade during learning.
Motor and perceptual changes are explained by collective plasticity across multiple components.
Learning is driven by a postdictive update of space after saccade landing, not visual prediction error.

Conclusions:

Trans-saccadic space perception plays a crucial role in guiding sensorimotor learning.
Learning utilizes corollary discharge (CD)-based postdiction of motor error, assuming a stable external world.
This challenges the prevailing view of visual prediction error as the primary driver of sensorimotor adaptation.