title: Motor timing learned without motor training.
abstract: Improvements due to perceptual training are often specific to the trained task and do not generalize to similar perceptual tasks. Surprisingly, given this history of highly constrained, context-specific perceptual learning, we found that training on a perceptual task showed significant transfer to a motor task. This result provides evidence for a common neural architecture underlying analysis of sensory input and control of motor output, and suggests a potential role for perception in motor development and rehabilitation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Meliora Hall, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA. meegan@psy.uoguelph.ca
authors.forename: D V
authors.initials: DV
authors.lastname: Meegan
authors.forename: R N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Aslin
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Jacobs
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001683:Biological Clocks / Q000502:physiology*; D002490:Central Nervous System / Q000502:physiology; D003213:Conditioning, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology*; D009048:Motor Skills / Q000502:physiology*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010465:Perception / Q000502:physiology; D013997:Time Factors