Performing and learning motor behaviors are fundamental to everyday life. The relations
between perceptual input and motor output have been studied and are well understood for …

Knowing where our limbs are in space is essential for moving and for adapting movements
to various changes in our environments and bodies. The ability to adapt movements …

Many daily activities require performance of multiple tasks integrating cognitive and motor
processes. While the fact that both processes go through deterioration and changes with …

Somatosensory function plays an important role for upper limb motor learning. However,
knowledge about underlying mechanisms of sensorimotor therapy is lacking. We aim to …

Little is known about the impact of attention during motor adaptation tasks on how
movements adapted in one context generalize to another. We investigated this by …

Humans exhibit remarkably complex cognitive abilities and adaptive behavior in daily life.
Cognitive operation in the" mental workspace," such as mentally rotating a piece of luggage …

Whether visuomotor plasticity of postural control is a trainable feature in older age remains
an open question despite the wealth of visually guided exercise games promising to …

In daily life, people are constantly presented with situations in which they have to learn and
acquire new motor skills in complex environments, where attention is often distracted by …

Using a dual-task paradigm, we recently reported that visuomotor adaptation acquired under
distraction of a secondary attention-demanding discrimination task could be remembered …

One of the brain's primary functions is to promote actions in dynamic, distracting
environments. Because distractions divert attention from our primary goals, we must learn to …