Could a pat on the back affect motor adaptation? Recent studies indeed suggest that
rewards can boost motor adaptation. However, the rewards used were typically reward …

The brain rapidly adapts reaching movements to changing circumstances by using visual
feedback about errors. Providing reward in addition to error feedback facilitates the …

Recently it has been shown that rewarded variability can be used to adapt visuomotor
behavior. However, its relevance seems limited because adaptation to binary rewards has …

Despite increasing interest in the role of reward in motor learning, the underlying
mechanisms remain ill defined. In particular, the contribution of explicit processes to reward …

Adaptation of movement may be driven by the difference between planned and actual motor
performance, or the difference between expected and actual sensory consequences of …

Visuomotor adaptation involves multiple processes such as explicit learning, implicit
learning from sensory prediction errors, and model-free mechanisms like use-dependent …

Adaptation is sometimes viewed as a process in which the nervous system learns to predict
and cancel effects of a novel environment, returning movements to near baseline …

When asked to move their unseen hand-to-visual targets, people exhibit idiosyncratic but
reliable visuo-proprioceptive matching errors. Unsurprisingly, vision and proprioception …

Recent findings have demonstrated that reward feedback alone can drive motor learning.
However, it is not yet clear whether reward feedback alone can lead to learning when a …

When we adapt our movements to a perturbation, and then adapt to another perturbation, is
the initial memory destroyed, or is it protected? Despite decades of experiments, this …