Swimming with and against the stream: does motor adaptation to lateral forces influence visual motion perception?

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  • Gerrit W Maus
چکیده

Many studies have investigated how the visual system influences motor control (Jackson and Husain, 1997). The reverse relationship of how the motor system influences visual perception has been less studied. For example, it has been suggested that when perceiving the actions of others, the observer’s motor system provides an internal model that is used for ongoing perceptual predictions (Wilson and Knoblich, 2005). To what extent can information acquired by the motor system be used in visual processing, and in particular for predictions of moving stimuli? In a recent study in the Journal of Neuroscience, Brown et al. (2007) show that learning to compensate for a constantly applied lateral force to the hand influences the accuracy of interception movements to a visually presented moving target. While holding a robotic manipulandum with their right-hand, participants first underwent a learning phase in which they made short, quick reaching movements to a visually presented target. During learning three independent groups of participants were exposed to a force of 10 N, pushing their hand either left or right, or to no force (the control group). Participants quickly learned to compensate for the external force. For those participants under the influence of either force direction, hand movement deviations from a straight line to the target quickly approached equivalent values to those in the control group [Brown et al. (2007), their Fig. 2 (http:// www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/27/ 37/9975/F2)]. In the next phase, participants performed an interception task. With the same force as in the training phase applied to their hand, participants now had to “stab” a rightward moving accelerating target “fish” [Brown et al. (2007), their Fig. 1 B, D, (http://www. jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/27/37/ 9975/F1)]. The target accelerated at 10 m/s , with motion starting at different initial speeds to achieve different viewing times (472, 560, and 672 ms) of the target. Brown et al. (2007) analyzed both the interception success rate and the “interception time difference,” the time between when the center of the target and the hand arrived at the interception point. Interception was generally inaccurate (40% successful hits in the control group), but significantly better ( 50% hits) in the group exposed to a force matching the motion of the target (rightward), and lowest ( 35% hits) in the group exposed to a force opposite to the direction of target motion [Brown et al. (2007), their Fig. 3 (http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/ full/27/37/9975/F3]. On average, participants reached the interception point after the center of the target. However, this lag was significantly shorter in the rightward force group than in both the leftward force and control groups. When separately analyzing trials with different viewing times, an effect of force conditions on interception time differences was only apparent for the longest viewing time [Brown et al. (2007), their Fig. 3 (http:// www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/27/ 37/9975/F3)], leading Brown et al. (2007) to argue that the information acquired by the motor system influences interception performance only when participants use a predictive, rather than reactive strategy. The actual kinematics of the interception movement did not differ between the leftward force and rightward force groups, suggesting that the effects of force direction on interception timing were not the result actual differences in the movement profile of the hand. To further address this point, new groups of participants underwent the same motor learning phase but subsequently performed a “remote interception” task. Again their right hand was exposed to the same force as during learning, but instead of moving their hand to intercept the target, they pressed a button with their left hand when they estimated Received Oct. 5, 2007; revised Nov. 3, 2007; accepted Nov. 5, 2007. I thank Beena Khurana, Jim Parkinson, and Ruth Habibi for fruitful discussions and comments on a previous version of this manuscript. Correspondence should be addressed to Gerrit W. Maus, Psychology Department, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK. E-mail: [email protected]. DOI:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4545-07.2007 Copyright©2007SocietyforNeuroscience 0270-6474/07/270001-02$15.00/0 The Journal of Neuroscience, December 12, 2007 • 27(50):●–● • 1 balt6/zns-neusci/zns-neusci/zns-orig/zns4195-07a eideg S 3 11/19/07 11:07 Art: 3297084 Input-YY(v)

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

دوره 27 49  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007