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The efficacy of colour cues in facilitating adaptation to opposing visuomotor rotations
Citation
Hinder, MR and Woolley, DG and Tresilian, JR and Riek, S and Carson, RG, The efficacy of colour cues in facilitating adaptation to opposing visuomotor rotations, Experimental Brain Research, 191, (2008) pp. 143-155. ISSN 0014-4819 (2008) [Refereed Article]
DOI: doi:10.1007/s00221-008-1513-7
Abstract
We investigated visuomotor adaptation using an isometric, target-acquisition task. Following trials with no rotation, two participant groups were exposed to a random sequence of 30° clockwise (CW) and 60° counter-clockwise (CCW) rotations, with (DUAL-CUE), or without (DUAL-NO CUE), colour cues that enabled each environment (non-rotated, 30° CW and 60° CCW) to be identified. A further three groups experienced only 30° CW trials or only 60° CCW trials (SINGLE rotation groups) in which each visuomotor mapping was again associated with a colour cue. During training, all SINGLE groups reduced angular deviations of the cursor path during the initial portion of the movements, indicating feedforward adaptation. Consistent with the view that the adaptation occurred automatically via recalibration of the visuomotor mapping (Krakauer et al. 1999), post-training aftereffects were observed, despite colour cues that indicated that no rotation was present. For the DUAL-CUE group, angular deviations decreased with training in the 60° trials, but were unchanged in the 30° trials, while for the DUAL-NO CUE group angular deviations decreased for the 60° CW trials but increased for the 30° CW trials. These results suggest that in a dual adaptation paradigm a colour cue can permit delineation of the two environments, with a subsequent change in behaviour resulting in improved performance in at least one of these environments. Increased reaction times within the training block, together with the absence of aftereffects in the post-training period for the DUAL-CUE group suggest an explicit cue-dependent strategy was used in an attempt to compensate for the rotations. © 2008 Springer-Verlag.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Research Division: | Medical and Health Sciences |
| Research Group: | Human Movement and Sports Science |
| Research Field: | Motor Control |
| Objective Division: | Health |
| Objective Group: | Other Health |
| Objective Field: | Health not elsewhere classified |
| UTAS Author: | Hinder, MR (Dr Mark Hinder) |
| ID Code: | 55023 |
| Year Published: | 2008 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 13 |
| Deposited By: | Psychology |
| Deposited On: | 2009-03-04 |
| Last Modified: | 2009-03-18 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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