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(Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2006;18:75-83.)
© 2006 The MIT Press

Automatic Drive of Limb Motor Plasticity

F. Magescas1,2,3 and C. Prablanc1,2,3

Unité INSERM UMRS 534 "Espace et Action," Bron cedex, France, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 UCBL1, Lyon, France, Institut Fédératif des Neurosciences de Lyon IFNL, Bron, France

Reprint requests should be sent to F. Magescas, Unité INSERM UMRS 534 "Espace et Action," 16 av du doyen Lepine, Bron cedex 69676, or via e-mail: magescas{at}lyon.inserm.fr.

The ability to perform accurate limb movements may require learning mechanisms that continually tune the motor system. In the current study, we isolate a form of pure limb motor plasticity. Participants reached to targets that were turned off just after the onset of an initial eye movement, reappearing at a new location at the end of the reaching movement. In contrast to classical prism or virtual reality paradigms, our task eliminated sensory adaptation by always maintaining a congruency between the seen and felt limb position. We also minimized awareness and potential adaptation processes on the basis of volitional strategies by progressively increasing the size of the target perturbations. In this manner, our adaptation procedure mimicked conditions used to study saccadic adaptation. The results indicated that adaptation under these conditions led to a robust after-effect that generalized to a large range of movements within the workspace. This fully natural, nonimposed generalization of adaptation is not expressed in a spatial coordinate system, but more likely in a joint-centered coordinate space.




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