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 …

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 …

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 …

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

Recent human motor learning studies revealed that punishment seemingly accelerated
motor learning but reward enhanced consolidation of motor memory. It is not evident how …

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 …

Error based motor learning can be driven by both sensory prediction error and reward
prediction error. Learning based on sensory prediction error is termed sensorimotor …

Sensorimotor adaptation has traditionally been viewed as a purely error-based process.
There is, however, growing appreciation for the idea that performance changes in these …

We examined whether task-dependent modulation was evident in a motor learning
paradigm. Subjects performed reaching movements before, during, and after exposure to a …

When learning a movement based on binary success information, one is more variable
following failure than following success. Theoretically, the additional variability post-failure …