Abstract
Rapid and accurate visuomotor coordination requires tight spatial and temporal sensorimotor synchronization. The introduction of a sensorimotor or intersensory misalignment (either spatial or temporal) impairs performance on most tasks. For more than a century, it has been known that a few minutes of exposure to a spatial misalignment can induce a recalibration of sensorimotor spatial relationships, a phenomenon that may be referred to as spatial visuomotor adaptation. Here, we use a high-fidelity driving simulator to demonstrate that the sensorimotor system can adapt to temporal misalignments on very complex tasks, a phenomenon that we refer to as temporal visuomotor adaptation. We demonstrate that adapting on a single street produces an adaptive state that generalizes to other streets. This shows that temporal visuomotor adaptation is not specific to a single visuomotor transformation, but generalizes across a class of transformations. Temporal visuomotor adaptation is strikingly parallel to spatial visuomotor adaptation, and has strong implications for the understanding of visuomotor coordination and intersensory integration.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 88-98 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Journal of Vision |
Volume | 1 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2001 Oct 30 |
Keywords
- Perceptual learning
- Prism adaptation
- Sensorimotor integration
- Spatial adaptation
- Visuomotor adaptation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Ophthalmology
- Sensory Systems