Asymmetric Transfer of Visuomotor Learning between Discrete and Rhythmic Movements
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As long as we only focus on kinematics, rhythmic movement appears to be a concatenation of discrete movements or discrete movement appears to be a truncated rhythmic movement. However, whether or not the neural control processes of discrete and rhythmic movements are distinct has not yet been clearly understood. Here, we address this issue by examining the motor learning transfer between these two types of movements testing the hypothesis that distinct neural control processes should lead to distinct motor learning and transfer. First, we found that the adaptation to an altered visuomotor condition was almost fully transferred from the discrete out-and-back movements to the rhythmic out-and-back movements; however, the transfer from the rhythmic to discrete movements was very small. Second, every time a new set of rhythmic movements was started, a considerable amount of movement error reappeared in the first and the following several cycles although the error converged to a small level by the end of each set. Last, we observed that when the discrete movement training was performed with intertrial intervals longer than 4 s, a significantly larger error appeared, specifically for the second and third cycles of the subsequent rhythmic movements, despite a seemingly full transfer to the first cycle. These results provide strong behavioral evidence that different neuronal control processes are involved in the two types of movements and that discrete control processes contribute to the generation of the first cycle of the rhythmic movement.
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Similar directional asymmetries have been reported in motor learning.
“Similar directional asymmetries have been reported in motor learning (Ikegami et al., 2010; Teixeira, 2000), raising the possibility that asymmetric transfer reflects a broader property of learning rather than a WM-specific phenomenon.”
From The asymmetry of working memory training transfer: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2026) · cites this paper as Ikegami et al., 2010
Compared with nondominant-limb training, dominant-limb training results in more bilateral motor activation and stronger transfer, and a related pattern has been reported for discrete-to-rhythmic movement transfer.
“For example, compared with nondominant-limb training, dominant-limb training results in more bilateral motor activation and stronger transfer (Teixeira, 2000), and a related pattern has been reported for discrete-to-rhythmic movement transfer (Ikegami et al., 2010; Schaal et al., 2004).”
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- Authors
- Ikegami, T., Hirashima, M., Taga, G., & Nozaki, D.
- Affiliations
- The University of Tokyo (JP)
- Venue
- The Journal of Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Society for Neuroscience
- Published
- 2010-03-24
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 4515-4521
- ISSN
- 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
- 1529-2401
- PMC
- PMC6634484
- OpenAlex
- W2041143912
- Cited by
- 69
- References
- 31
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- FWCI
- 3.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Casio Science Promotion Foundation
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (20670008)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Control and Systems Engineering › Iterative Learning Control Systems
- Keywords
- visuomotor learning, motor learning transfer, discrete movements, rhythmic movement, visuomotor adaptation, intertrial interval, motion error, neural control of movement
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Discrimination, Psychological, Female, Humans, Functional Laterality, Male, Movement, Neuropsychological Tests, Periodicity, Psychomotor Performance, Reaction Time, Time Factors, Transfer, Psychology, Visual Perception, Young Adult
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