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Credit assignment between body and object probed by an object transportation task
It has been proposed that learning from movement errors involves a credit assignment problem: did I misestimate properties of the object or those of my body? For example, an overestimate of arm strength and an underestimate of the weight of a coffee cup can both lead to coffee spills. Though previou...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5645448/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29042671 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-13889-w |
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author | Kong, Gaiqing Zhou, Zhihao Wang, Qining Kording, Konrad Wei, Kunlin |
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description | It has been proposed that learning from movement errors involves a credit assignment problem: did I misestimate properties of the object or those of my body? For example, an overestimate of arm strength and an underestimate of the weight of a coffee cup can both lead to coffee spills. Though previous studies have found signs of simultaneous learning of the object and of the body during object manipulation, there is little behavioral evidence about their quantitative relation. Here we employed a novel weight-transportation task, in which participants lift the first cup filled with liquid while assessing their learning from errors. Specifically, we examined their transfer of learning when switching to a contralateral hand, the second identical cup, or switching both hands and cups. By comparing these transfer behaviors, we found that 25% of the learning was attributed to the object (simply because of the use of the same cup) and 58% of the learning was attributed to the body (simply because of the use of the same hand). The nervous system thus seems to partition the learning of object manipulation between the object and the body. |
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spelling | pubmed-56454482017-10-26 Credit assignment between body and object probed by an object transportation task Kong, Gaiqing Zhou, Zhihao Wang, Qining Kording, Konrad Wei, Kunlin Sci Rep Article It has been proposed that learning from movement errors involves a credit assignment problem: did I misestimate properties of the object or those of my body? For example, an overestimate of arm strength and an underestimate of the weight of a coffee cup can both lead to coffee spills. Though previous studies have found signs of simultaneous learning of the object and of the body during object manipulation, there is little behavioral evidence about their quantitative relation. Here we employed a novel weight-transportation task, in which participants lift the first cup filled with liquid while assessing their learning from errors. Specifically, we examined their transfer of learning when switching to a contralateral hand, the second identical cup, or switching both hands and cups. By comparing these transfer behaviors, we found that 25% of the learning was attributed to the object (simply because of the use of the same cup) and 58% of the learning was attributed to the body (simply because of the use of the same hand). The nervous system thus seems to partition the learning of object manipulation between the object and the body. Nature Publishing Group UK 2017-10-17 /pmc/articles/PMC5645448/ /pubmed/29042671 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-13889-w Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Kong, Gaiqing Zhou, Zhihao Wang, Qining Kording, Konrad Wei, Kunlin Credit assignment between body and object probed by an object transportation task |
title | Credit assignment between body and object probed by an object transportation task |
title_full | Credit assignment between body and object probed by an object transportation task |
title_fullStr | Credit assignment between body and object probed by an object transportation task |
title_full_unstemmed | Credit assignment between body and object probed by an object transportation task |
title_short | Credit assignment between body and object probed by an object transportation task |
title_sort | credit assignment between body and object probed by an object transportation task |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5645448/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29042671 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-13889-w |
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