Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Dissociable cognitive strategies for sensorimotor learning

  • Samuel D. McDougle,
  • Jordan A. Taylor

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07941-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Motor learning is thought to be mostly procedural, but recent work has suggested that there is a strong cognitive component to it. Here, the authors show that humans use dissociable cognitive strategies, either caching successful responses or using a rule-based strategy, to solve a visuomotor learning task.