Visuomotor associations facilitate movement preparation.

Many motor skills require rapidly choosing a movement goal and preparing to that goal, such as in sports where circumstances often change quickly many actions are possible. Humans can benefit from learning the perceptual cues predict requirements of so choice preparation occur earlier. However, there remains uncertainty about how these learned. Here we investigate use perceptual-motor associations. First, ask if episodic memory for associations support learning. In Experiment 1, participants first memorized between symbols goals. When were subsequently presented cues, reaching movements prepared efficiently goals themselves previewed, without need additional practice. Next, whether statistical be used learn 2, had during task itself. This enabled efficient preparation, rate improvement scaled with number complexity These findings suggest facilitated by via recall, highlighting potential role systems not conventionally implicated behavior. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).