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. 1996 Apr 30;93(9):3843–3846. doi: 10.1073/pnas.93.9.3843

Motor learning by field approximation.

F Gandolfo 1, F A Mussa-Ivaldi 1, E Bizzi 1
PMCID: PMC39446  PMID: 8632977

Abstract

We investigated how human subjects adapt to forces perturbing the motion of their ams. We found that this kind of learning is based on the capacity of the central nervous system (CNS) to predict and therefore to cancel externally applied perturbing forces. Our experimental results indicate: (i) that the ability of the CNS to compensate for the perturbing forces is restricted to those spatial locations where the perturbations have been experienced by the moving arm. The subjects also are able to compensate for forces experienced at neighboring workspace locations. However, adaptation decays smoothly and quickly with distance from the locations where disturbances had been sensed by the moving limb. (ii) Our experiments also how that the CNS builds an internal model of the external perturbing forces in intrinsic (muscles and / or joints) coordinates.

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