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The Journal of Neuroscience, April 5, 2006, 26(14):3642-3645; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5317-05.2006
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An Implicit Plan Overrides an Explicit Strategy during Visuomotor Adaptation
Pietro Mazzoni andJohn W. Krakauer Motor Performance Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032
Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. John W. Krakauer, Motor Performance Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 710 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032. Email: jwk18{at}columbia.edu
The relationship between implicit and explicit processes during motor learning, and for visuomotor adaptation in particular, is poorly understood. We set up a conflict between implicit and explicit processes by instructing subjects to counter a visuomotor rotation using a cognitive strategy in a pointing task. Specifically, they were told the exact nature of the directional perturbation, a rotation that directed them 45° counterclockwise from the desired target, and they were instructed to counter it by aiming for the neighboring clockwise target, 45° away. Subjects were initially successful in completely negating the rotation with this strategy. Surprisingly, however, they were unable to sustain explicit control and made increasingly large errors to the desired target. The cognitive strategy failed because subjects simultaneously adapted unconsciously to the rotation to the neighboring target. Notably, the rate of implicit adaptation to the neighboring target was not significantly different from rotation adaptation in the absence of an opposing explicit strategy. These results indicate that explicit strategies cannot substitute for implicit adaptation to a visuomotor rotation and are in fact overridden by the motor planning system. This suggests that the motor system requires that planned and executed trajectories remain congruous in visual space, and enforces this correspondence even at the expense of an opposing explicit task goal.
Key words: adaptation; motor intention; motor learning; wrist; control; visuomotor rotation
Received Dec. 13, 2005; revised Feb. 18, 2006; accepted Feb. 21, 2006.
Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. John W. Krakauer, Motor Performance Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 710 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032. Email: jwk18{at}columbia.edu
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