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When some perceptual-motor relationships are reversed, participants might adopt a global inhibition strategy that replaces all normal movements with reversed movements. In two experiments, participants practiced moving a cursor from a start position to target locations. In a perceptual-motor reversal condition, in which horizontal but not vertical movements were reversed, participants were trained to move only to certain locations. Testing involved moving to all locations under the same reversal condition. Training on a subset of locations yielded partial transfer to untrained locations. These results support a global inhibition hypothesis modified to include both midcourse corrective movements and training specificity.
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This research was supported in part by Army Research Institute Contract DASW01-03-K-0002 and Army Research Office Grant W9112NF-05-1-0153 to the University of Colorado.
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Wohldmann, E.L., Healy, A.F. & Bourne, L.E. Global inhibition and midcourse corrections in speeded aiming. Memory & Cognition 36, 1228–1235 (2008). https://doi.org/10.3758/MC.36.7.1228
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