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Concurrent adaptation to opposite visual distortions: impairment and cue

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The present study compared single and dual adaptation to visuomotor rotations in different cueing conditions. Participants adapted either to a constant rotation or to opposing rotations (dual adaptation) applied in an alternating order. In Experiment 1, visual and corresponding postural cues were provided to indicate different rotation directions. In Experiment 2, either a visual or a postural cue was available. In all cueing conditions, substantial dual adaptation was observed, although it was attenuated in comparison to single adaptation. Analysis of switching costs determined as the performance difference between the last trial before and the first trial after the change of rotation direction suggested substantial advantage of the visual cue compared to the postural cue, which was in line with previous findings demonstrating the dominance of visual sense in movement representation and control.

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  1. A further class of abstract instructional cues (Imamizu et al., 2007) will not be discussed here.

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Acknowledgments

We wish to thank Pia Elisabeth Weber and Florian Bade for carrying out the experiments. We also wish to thank Jens Tiggelbeck for fruitful discussions. This research was supported by a grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to the J. Müsseler (DFG MU 1298/9). Correspondence concerning this manuscript should be addressed to the first author at the Department of Work and Cognitive Psychology, RWTH Aachen University, Jägerstr. 17-19, 52066 Aachen, Germany. Email: lei.wang@psych.rwth-aachen.de.

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Wang, L., Müsseler, J. Concurrent adaptation to opposite visual distortions: impairment and cue. Psychological Research 78, 453–464 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-013-0500-1

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