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Rethinking Motor Learning and Savings in Adaptation Paradigms: Model-Free Memory for Successful Actions Combines with Internal Models
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Although motor learning is likely to involve multiple processes, phenomena observed in error-based motor learning paradigms tend to be conceptualized in terms of only a single process – adaptation, which occurs through updating an internal model. Here we argue that fundamental phenomena like movement direction biases, savings (faster relearning) and interference do not relate to adaptation but instead are attributable to two additional learning processes that can be characterized as model-free: use-dependent plasticity and operant reinforcement. Although usually “hidden” behind adaptation, we demonstrate, with modified visuomotor rotation paradigms, that these distinct model-based and model-free processes combine to learn an error-based motor task: (1) Adaptation of an internal model channels movements toward successful error reduction in visual space. (2) Repetition of the newly adapted movement induces directional biases towards the repeated movement. (3) Operant reinforcement through association of the adapted movement with successful error reduction is responsible for savings.
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The paper argues that error-based motor adaptation paradigms conflate three learning processes: model-based adaptation, use-dependent plasticity, and operant reinforcement. Across modified visuomotor rotation experiments, savings depended on prior association of a successful hand-space movement with adaptation, not on adaptation alone.
Key findings
- Adaptation with movement repetition (Adp+Rep+) induced a directional bias toward the repeated 70° hand-space direction: hand-movement distributions were tighter than adaptation-only (mean SD 4.9±0.4° vs 11.7±0.45°, t(14)=-11.95, p<0.001), with bias slopes of 0.32±0.03 for trained targets and 0.42±0.04 for probe targets.
- Savings occurred only when adaptation was paired with repetition: Adp+Rep+ relearned faster (0.49±0.08 trial⁻¹) than naïve controls (0.13±0.02 trial⁻¹; t(14)=3.495, p=0.004), whereas adaptation-only (Adp+Rep−, 0.12±0.02 trial⁻¹) and repetition-only (Adp−Rep+) showed no savings. Adp+Rep+ also showed a 35% increase in average error reduced over the first 20 trials versus naïve (p=0.001).
- Savings transferred to an oppositely signed rotation when the required hand-space solution was the same: SAME-SOLNhand relearned faster (0.23±0.03 trial⁻¹) than initial learning (0.11±0.04 trial⁻¹; p=0.03), while SAME-SOLNvisual showed no savings (0.11±0.02 trial⁻¹; p=0.411).
- A state-space model fit adaptation-only data well (r²=0.968) but failed for Adp+Rep+ at asymptote (r²=-0.502), supporting an additional model-free process.
Methods
- Sixty healthy, right-handed subjects (mean age 24.7±4.9, 25 males) performed a visuomotor rotation reaching task with a mirror/air-jet apparatus; subjects were randomly assigned to groups across three experiments.
- Experiment 1 compared Adp+Rep+ and Adp+Rep− (n=8 each). Experiment 2 compared four groups: Adp+Rep+, Adp+Rep−, Adp−Rep+, Adp−Rep− (n=10, 10, 6, 6). Experiment 3 compared SAME-SOLNhand and SAME-SOLNvisual (n=6 each).
- Learning and relearning rates were estimated by fitting a single decaying exponential to error time series; trial-to-trial hand directions were simulated with a single-state state-space model; group comparisons used t-tests and repeated-measures ANOVA, with power analysis indicating a minimum of 6 subjects per group.
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- Stated in the paper: Experiment 2 had two potential concerns—Adp+Rep+ and Adp+Rep− may have differed slightly in initial adaptation to the 95° target (~6°), and Adp+Rep− trained on 20° but was tested on 25°; the authors addressed these with additional +20° rotation groups at the 90° target, which showed comparable initial adaptation and still greater savings for Adp+Rep+.
- Stated in the paper: power analysis assumed an effect size from prior savings data and yielded a minimum of 6 subjects per group, so the negative results were argued to be likely true negatives.
- Evident from the text: group sizes were small (n=6–10), all data came from one laboratory and one reaching paradigm, and the model-free processes were inferred behaviorally rather than formally modeled or neurally dissociated.
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“(2) Repetition of the newly adapted movement induces directional biases towards the repeated movement.”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Abstract
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“The state-space model was an excellent predictor of the empirical data for Adp+Rep− (r2=0.968, Fig. 2C), which supports our assumption that asymptotic performance in Adp+Rep− can be completely accounted for by error-based learning of an internal model alone; subjects rotated”
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“Indeed, at training asymptote, movement directions in hand space for Adp+Rep+ were more tightly distributed around the repeated direction (mean s.d.=4.9±0.4°, mean±s.e.m) when compared to Adp+Rep− (mean s.d.=11.7±0.45°, t(14)=-11.95, p<0.001).”
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“On the first test trial after washout, both Adp+Rep+and Adp+Rep−, produced errors close to 25°, which indicated that washout was complete (Adp+Rep+: 23.73±1.18° (mean±s.e.m.); Adp+Rep−, 24.20±2.37, t(18)=-0.340, p=0.738) (Fig. 4A).”
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“In support of our hypothesis, Adp+Rep+ showed significant savings (0.49±0.08 trial-1, mean±sem) when compared to the naïve training group Adp−Rep− (0.13±0.02 trial-1) (two-tailed t-test, t(14)=3.495, p=0.004).”
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“We found evidence for use-dependent plasticity in the form of a bias towards the repeated direction (i.e., the direction in hand space converged upon by adaptation) for both trained and untrained targets.”
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“Interestingly, in the first test trial of the -30° rotation, SAME-SOLNhand had an average error that was less than the -30° (-23.34±0.88°, one-tailed t(5)=7.56, p<0.001) while SAME-SOLNvisual had an error not significantly different from -30° (t(5)=-0.2, p=0.849) (Fig. 6B).”
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“Again, Adp+Rep+ had a significantly greater savings than the Adp+Rep− (0.15±0.01 trial-1 versus 0.08±0.02 trial-1, t(14)=3.06, p=0.009) (supplementary Fig. S1F).”
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“Therefore we also tested for savings in two additional groups with a +20° rotation in the 90° direction, where the two groups showed comparable degrees of initial adaptation (Adp+Rep−: 17.3±0.8°, Adp+Rep+: 18.51±0.9°, t(14)=-1.047, p=0.31)(supplementary Fig. S1A, E).”
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“Adp+Rep+, as expected, did induce a bias toward the mean of the hand movements at asymptote.”
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“As expected for generalization of adaptation, hand directions in Adp+Rep− were clockwise and gradually converged to naïve performance and this was predicted well by the state-space model (Fig. 2E).”
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“Adp+Rep+ crossed and began to show an increasing bias away from naive directions as the probe directions moved further away from the repeated direction in hand space (Fig. 2F); this is the opposite of the expectation for adaptation but entirely”
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“The mean movement direction at the end of training across subjects was 76.0±2.1° (mean±s.d.) for Adp+Rep− (supplementary Fig. S1D) and the mean movement direction at the end of training was 71.6±1.3° (mean±s.d.) for Adp+Rep+.”
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“In contrast, no savings was observed for the repetition-only group, Adp−Rep+ (Fig. 4B); indeed the learning rate was not significantly different from naïve training in Adp−Rep− (0.16±0.04 trial-1 v.s. 0.13±0.02 trial-1, two-tailed t-test, t(10)=0.594, p=0.565) (Fig. 4C).”
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“To summarize Experiment 1, adaptation to a target sequence that led to movements distributed around the repeated direction in hand space led to a bias towards the repeated direction that was comparable for trained and untrained targets, with increasing absolute size of bias for farther away targets in both directions.”
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“To summarize Experiment 2, an adaptation protocol with movement repetition led to clear savings whereas neither adaptation alone nor repetition alone led to any savings.”
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“The hand direction versus target direction relationship was well described with a single linear fit (0 < slope ≪ 1) that had a close fit to both training and probe targets.”
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“subjects rotated their hand movement by an average of --13.97±1.41° (mean±s.d.) (the vertical displacement from the naïve line in Fig. 2C), or about 70% adaptation on average for all targets.”
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“In contrast, Adp+Rep− (0.12±0.02 trial-1) were no faster than the naïve training control and showed no savings (t(14)=-0.39, p=0.70)(Fig. 4A,C).”
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“Interestingly, the bias generated during Adp+Rep+, which can be plotted as the dependent relationship between displayed targets and hand movement direction, was also apparent during learning, with a slope of 0.32 (±0.03) for the trained targets that was comparable to the slope for the probe targets (0.42±0.04).”
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“Consistent with the prediction of operant reinforcement, SAME-SOLNhand showed savings for the -30° rotation after training on +30° (Fig. 6A); the relearning rate during test (0.23±0.03 trial-1) was significantly faster than initial learning (Fig. 6C) (paired one-tailed t(5)=-2.371, p=0.03).”
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“Thus we saw a marked savings effect for a +25° rotation for Adp+Rep+, but no savings at all for Adp+Rep−.”
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“In contrast, no savings were seen for SAME-SOLNvisual which had a relearning rate of 0.11±0.02 trial-1 during test (Fig. 6B) (paired one-tailed t(5)=0.238, p=0.411).”
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“We found evidence for operant reinforcement in the form of savings – subjects showed faster relearning when rotations of either sign (clockwise or counter-clockwise) required an adapted solution that coincided with a previously successful hand movement direction.”
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“For Adp+Rep+, the adaptation model was able to predict hand directions relatively well in the early phase of training (r2=0.753) but then began to fail as subjects developed a directional bias beyond what was expected from adaptation alone (r2=-0.502) (Fig. 2D, asymptotic training).”
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“Adp+Rep+ showed marked savings whereas Adp+Rep−showed no savings, even though they adapted to the same mean rotation.”
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“Neither repetition alone nor adaptation alone led to savings, which suggests that it is the association of the two that is critical.”
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“We have shown that use-dependent plasticity and operant reinforcement both occur along with adaptation.”
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“Despite its apparent simplicity, the SSM framework fits trial-to-trial perturbation data extremely well (Ethier et al., 2008; Huang and Shadmehr, 2007; Scheidt et al., 2001; Smith et al., 2006; Tanaka et al., 2009).”
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“These results suggest that the association of movement repetition with successful adaptation is necessary and sufficient for savings.”
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“In particular, relearning of a given perturbation for a second time is faster than initial learning – a phenomenon known as savings (Ebbinghaus, 1913; Kojima et al., 2004; Krakauer et al., 2005; Smith et al., 2006; Zarahn et al., 2008) – whereas a basic single-timescale SSM predicts that learning should always occur at the same rate, regardless of past experience (Zarahn et al., 2008).”
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“Although SSM variants that include multiple timescales of learning (Kording et al., 2007; Smith et al., 2006) are able to explain savings over short timescales, this approach fails to predict the fact that savings still occurs following a prolonged period of washout of initial learning (Krakauer et al., 2005; Zarahn et al., 2008).”
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“In summary, the results of Experiment 3 suggest that savings is attributable a model-free operant memory for actions and not to faster re-learning or re-expression of a previously learned internal model.”
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“More recently it has been shown that biases can be observed in parallel with acquisition of an internal model along the task-irrelevant dimension in a redundant task (Diedrichsen et al., 2010).”
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“These results are opposite of what would be predicted if the observed behavior were solely due to adaptation of an internal model and show that a model-free process based on repeated actions is in operation in Adp+Rep+ but not Adp+Rep−.”
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“The core idea in all of these models is that savings is the result of either faster re-acquisition or re-expression of a previously learned internal model; i.e., they all explain savings within a model-based learning framework.”
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“This suggests that errors were first reduced through adaptation but then were further reduced through mechanisms other than adaptation.”
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“Here we will argue that the process underlying savings is also model-free but distinct from use-dependent plasticity.”
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“We had power of 0.8 (see Methods) and thus the negative results are likely true negatives.”
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“The critical difference between our study and that by Diedrichsen and colleagues is that we reasoned that adaptation itself can act like a channel but in the task-relevant dimension – it not only reduces visual error but also guides subjects' hand towards a new path in hand space.”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Discussion > Use-dependent plasticity
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“Interestingly, the biases we observed here in the setting of adaptation appear to be larger compared to those induced by repetition alone, which suggests that repetition in the context of reducing errors in response to a perturbation may in itself generate reward that modulates use-dependent plasticity.”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Discussion > Use-dependent plasticity
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“We reasoned that the reward landscape is not flat during adaptation but rather is increasingly rewarding as the prediction error decreases, i.e., the hand movement that is induced by the adaptation process will be reinforced through increasing success (decreasing error).”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Discussion > Savings
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“Instead, additional learning mechanisms must be present which are model-free in the sense that they are associated with a memory for action independently of an internal model and are likely to be driven directly by task success (i.e. reward).”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Discussion > Adaptation as model-based learning
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In the paper
“In the theory of reinforcement learning, the general problem to be solved is to use experience to identify a suitable control policy in an unknown or changing environment (Sutton and Barto, 1998).”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Discussion > Adaptation as model-based learning
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- Not checked yetcites Sutton and Barto, 1998
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“Savings is a form of procedural and motor memory that manifests as faster relearning compared with initial learning (Ebbinghaus, 1913; Smith et al., 2006; Zarahn et al., 2008).”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Discussion > Savings
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“Adaptation is the model-based component, while model-free components include use-dependent plasticity and operant reinforcement.”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Discussion > Adaptation as model-based learning
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- The authors state this as an assumption: In motor control, the reward structure is unambiguous: success is achieved by the cursor reaching the target.
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In the paper
“Therefore each approach can be advantageous in different circumstances.”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Discussion > Adaptation as model-based learning
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“This is exactly what has been found: patients with PD were able to adapt to initial rotation as well as control subjects but they did not show savings (Bedard and Sanes, 2011; Marinelli et al., 2009).”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Discussion > Savings
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- Not checked yetcites Bedard and Sanes, 2011
- Not checked yetcites Marinelli et al., 2009 source
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“On the contrary, we believe that adaptation is indifferent to reward outcomes on individual trials, and is purely sensitive to errors in the predicted state of the hand or cursor.”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Discussion > Adaptation as model-based learning
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In the paper
“It appears, therefore, that adaptation is “automatic” – it is an obligate, perhaps reward-indifferent (Mazzoni and Krakauer, 2006), cerebellar-based (Martin et al., 1996a, b; Smith and Shadmehr, 2005; Tseng et al., 2007) learning process that will attempt to”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Discussion > Adaptation as model-based learning
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In the paper
“We conclude from Experiment 2 that a reinforcement process was necessary and sufficient for savings, and that use-dependent plasticity is not sufficient for savings.”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Discussion > Savings
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“Theoretical treatments have argued that competition between these two mechanisms enables the benefits of each to be combined to maximum effect (Daw et al., 2005).”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Discussion > Adaptation as model-based learning
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- Not checked yetcites Daw et al., 2005 source
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In the paper
“They were randomly assigned to groups in each experiment.”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Experimental Procedures > Subjects
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In the paper
“If we are right in our assertion that motor learning studied with error-based paradigms results from the combination of model-free and model-based learning processes then these paradigms may be well suited to study how the brain modularly assembles complex motor abilities.”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Conclusions
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- The authors state this as an assumption: In motor control, the reward structure is unambiguous: success is achieved by the cursor reaching the target.
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In the paper
“In continuous and high-dimensional action spaces, pure model-free learning is unfeasible, especially if a detailed feedback control policy must be acquired.”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Discussion > Adaptation as model-based learning
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- Rests on an assumption: Any task implicitly carries some notion of success or failure that can be encapsulated mathematically through a cost (reward) function.
None of the sources cited for this claim have been checked yet.
In the paper
“The presence of dopamine receptors on cells in primary motor cortex (Huntley et al., 1992; Luft and Schwarz, 2009; Ziemann et al., 1997) could provide a candidate mechanism for reward-based modulation of such use-dependent plasticity (Hosp et al., 2011).”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Conclusions
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In the paper
“There is a precedent for such unconscious reward-based learning in the perceptual learning literature, and the reward can be internal – it does not need to be explicitly provided by the experimenter (Seitz et al., 2009).”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Discussion > Adaptation as model-based learning
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Seitz et al., 2009 source
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“Finally, operant reinforcement may require dopaminergic projections to the striatum (Wachter et al., 2010).”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Conclusions
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- Not checked yetcites Wachter et al., 2010 source
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In the paper
“The workspace was calibrated so that the image of the cursor indicating hand position fell exactly on the unseen tip of the middle finger's location (i.e., veridical display) (Mazzoni et al., 2007).”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Experimental Procedures > The set-up
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- Not checked yetcites Mazzoni et al., 2007 source
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In the paper
“This idea of the value of “near-misses” has been argued for in reinforcement algorithms that assign value to near-misses even when actual reinforcement is not given on such trials (MacLin et al., 2007).”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Discussion > Adaptation as model-based learning
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites MacLin et al., 2007 source
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In the paper
“A recent motor learning model has been conceptualized in terms of the existence of fast and slow error-based processes (Kording et al., 2007; Smith et al., 2006).”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Discussion > Adaptation as model-based learning
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In the paper
“The existence of separate learning processes may indicate an underlying anatomical separation.”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Conclusions
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- The authors state this as an assumption: In motor control, the reward structure is unambiguous: success is achieved by the cursor reaching the target.
In the paper
“For an independent samples t-test using a two-tailed alpha of 0.05 and power of 0.8, and assuming an effect size d = 1.9375 (computed based on previously reported group means and standard deviation; time constant = 0.47 for savings and 0.16 for naïve, with s.d. = 0.16), the minimum sample size is 6 subjects per group.”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Experimental Procedures > Power analysis
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Zarahn et al., 2008 source
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In the paper
“All subjects were naïve to the purpose of the study and gave informed consent in compliance to guidelines set forth by the Columbia University Medical Center Institutional Review Board.”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Experimental Procedures > Subjects
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In the paper
“Based on our results, we argue that heretofore unexplained, or perhaps erroneously explained, phenomena in adaptation experiments result from the fact that most such experiments inadvertently lie somewhere between our adaptation-only protocol and our adaptation-plus-repetition protocol, with the result that three distinct forms of learning – adaptation, use-dependent plasticity, and operant”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Conclusions
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- The authors state this as an assumption: In motor control, the reward structure is unambiguous: success is achieved by the cursor reaching the target.
A conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“Re-experiencing the same task with the same or even opposite rotational perturbations induces the learner to initially reduce error through pure adaptation but when their movements come within range of the attractor, savings occurs.”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Discussion > Adaptation as model-based learning
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- The authors state this as an assumption: In motor control, the reward structure is unambiguous: success is achieved by the cursor reaching the target.
None of the sources cited for this claim have been checked yet.
In the paper
“The rewarding/motivating nature of “near misses” has been reported for gambling where they increase the desire to play (Clark et al., 2009; Daw et al., 2006; Kakade and Dayan, 2002).”
§ Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models > Discussion > Adaptation as model-based learning
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The authors state this as an assumption.
Asymptotic performance in Adp+Rep− can be completely accounted for by error-based learning of an internal model alone.
“which supports our assumption that asymptotic performance in Adp+Rep− can be completely accounted for by error-based learning of an internal model alone”
The paper relies on this without support.
The cerebellum is unaffected in Parkinson's disease.
“a structure unaffected in Parkinson's disease (PD)”
The paper relies on this without support.
Reinforcement is rotation angle invariant; the adaptation-guided direction in hand space is what matters.
“because reinforcement should be rotation angle invariant as it is the adaptation-guided direction in hand space that matters”
The paper relies on this without support.
Most behavior in error-based motor learning paradigms is well described by adaptation.
“In spite of the fact that most behavior in error-based motor learning paradigms is well described by adaptation, we argue here that there are phenomena in perturbation paradigms that cannot be explained in terms of adaptation alone.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Any task implicitly carries some notion of success or failure that can be encapsulated mathematically through a cost (reward) function.
“All motor learning can be conceptualized within this framework; even if there is no explicit reward structure, any task implicitly carries some notion of success or failure that can be encapsulated mathematically through a cost (reward) function.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
In motor control, the reward structure is unambiguous: success is achieved by the cursor reaching the target.
“In the case of motor control, however, we assume that the reward structure is unambiguous: success is achieved by the cursor reaching the target.”
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“Crucially, however, it is now known from careful psychophysical work that many distinct learning algorithms operate together to counter the effects of a perturbation during adaptation, even though phenotypically their summed behavior can look like pure error-based cerebellar learning (Huang et al., 2011;Taylor et al., 2014).”
From Neuroscience Needs Behavior: Correcting a Reductionist Bias (2017) · cites this paper as Huang et al., 2011
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Every reported test result, recomputed from its test statistic and degrees of freedom. A result shows as not adding up only once an independent check has confirmed it.
- Consistentt(14) = -11.95reported p < .001 · recomputed p < .001
“t(14)=-11.95, p < .001”
- Consistentt(18) = -0.34reported p = .738 · recomputed p = .738
“t(18)=-0.340, p = .738”
- Consistentt(14) = 3.495reported p = .004 · recomputed p = .004
“t(14)=3.495, p = .004”
- Consistentt(14) = -0.39reported p = .7 · recomputed p = .702
“t(14)=-0.39, p = .70”
- Consistentt(18) = 4.62reported p < .001 · recomputed p < .001
“t(18)=4.62, p < .001”
- Consistentt(14) = -4.175reported p = .001 · recomputed p < .001
“t(14)=-4.175, p = .001”
- Consistentt(14) = -1.047reported p = .31 · recomputed p = .313
“t(14)=-1.047, p = .31”
- Consistentt(14) = 3.06reported p = .009 · recomputed p = .008
“t(14)=3.06, p = .009”
- Consistentt(10) = 0.594reported p = .565 · recomputed p = .566
“t(10)=0.594, p = .565”
- Consistentt(5) = -2.371reported p = .03 · recomputed p = .064
“t(5)=-2.371, p = .03”
The paper states a one-tailed test
- Consistentt(5) = 0.238reported p = .411 · recomputed p = .821
“t(5)=0.238, p = .411”
The paper states a one-tailed test
- Consistentt(5) = 7.56reported p < .001 · recomputed p < .001
“t(5)=7.56, p < .001”
- Consistentt(5) = -0.2reported p = .849 · recomputed p = .849
“t(5)=-0.2, p = .849”
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Each contradiction between two passages listed here was confirmed by an independent check.
Learning rate is defined both as a time constant and its inverse
MinorThe Results say the reported error-reduction rate is the inverse of the time constant. Data Analysis instead defines that rate as the time constant itself, although its exponential formula uses it as an inverse time constant.
“We fit a single exponential function to each subject's data to estimate the rate of error-reduction, expressed as the inverse of the time constant (in units of trial-1).”
“The error reduction rate (i.e., learning and relearning rate) was defined as the time constant obtained by fitting the error time-series with a single decaying exponential function of the form y = C1 exp(-rate * x) +C0”
Block 4 is assigned both washout and test trials
MinorThe Experiment 3 procedure assigns Block 4 to two different sets of 80 trials. The test trials would have to be in another block to match the stated five-block protocol.
“Block 4 was a washout block and had 80 baseline trials.”
“Block 4 consisted of 80 test trials (Fig. 5A).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Huang, V. S., Haith, A., Mazzoni, P., & Krakauer, J. W.
- Affiliations
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center (US)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Huang, Vincent S.
- Krakauer, John W.
- Venue
- Neuron
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-05
- Volume
- 70
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 787-801
- ISSN
- 0896-6273 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3134523
- OpenAlex
- W2130609859
- Semantic Scholar
- 9ba1988d958d092cb1b5a09f36c1ea4b29ef8b09
- Cited by
- 472
- References
- 95
- Citations by year
- 2026: 19 · 2025: 29 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 27 · 2021: 35 · 2020: 28 · 2019: 52 · 2018: 32 · 2017: 39 · 2016: 36 · 2015: 40 · 2014: 35 · 2013: 27 · 2012: 22
- FWCI
- 15.24
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Neuron (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (7r01ns052804-05)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS-052804)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Keywords
- motor learning, visuomotor adaptation, model-based learning, internal models, savings, interference, operant reinforcement, use-dependent plasticity, error-based learning, visuomotor rotation
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Physiological, Adult, Female, Humans, Learning, Male, Memory, Models, Biological, Movement, Photic Stimulation, Psychomotor Performance, Young Adult
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