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Interacting adaptive processes with different timescales underlie short-term motor learning.
Smith MA, Ghazizadeh A, Shadmehr R
PLoS Biol 2006 Jun 4(6):e179 [abstract on PubMed] [citations on Google Scholar] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Daniel Wolpert / Emery Brown
First evaluation 1 Jun 2006 | Latest evaluation 26 Jun 2006
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Daniel Wolpert
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Neuroscience

Hypothesis
New Finding
This study shows that a number of apparently disparate effects in motor leaning can be unified by proposing that learning consists of two parallel processes, one with a short and one with a long time constant. This proposal allows a dissociation between the internal state of the learner (that is the state of each of the two learning processes) and current performance (the sum of the two learning processes) and can account for savings, anterograde inference and rapid unlearning.



Competing interests: None declared
Evaluated 1 Jun 2006
Emery Brown
Massachusetts General Hospital, United States of America
Neuroscience

New Finding
This article suggests that human motor learning of reaching may be a function of a two state system in which the two states have different sensitivities to error and retain information at different rates. These findings suggest a possible unifying explanation for several different and seemingly unrelated features of motor adaptation, including savings, anterograde interference, spontaneous recovery and rapid unlearning.



Competing interests: None declared
Evaluated 26 Jun 2006
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