title: Adaptive control: a review of the ability to acquire and maintain high sensorimotor performance.
abstract: When the relationship which relates us to the environment through vision, often named visual mapping, is durably modified, our behaviour is altered at sensory, motor and cognitive levels. The brain has the ability through the so-called adaptive control to progressively decrease the motor errors despite visual image alteration. Adaptive control in both the visuo-manual and the vestibulo-ocular systems is reviewed. A parallel is tentatively made between adaptation to ordinary optical alterations (resulting from the use of refraction-corrective glasses) in the visual mapping of these two systems and the adaptation to more complex visuo-motor relationships experienced by people working in virtual environments.
authors.affiliation: Faculté des Sciences du Sport, UMR CNRS University of the Mediterranean Mouvement and Perception, 163 Avenue de Luminy, F13288 Marseilles-Luminy cedex 9, France. gabriel.gauthier@univmed.fr
authors.forename: Gabriel M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Gauthier
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Blouin
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bourdin
authors.forename: Jean-Louis
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Vercher
mesh_terms: D000221:Adaptation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology; D003201:Computers; D005133:Eye Movements / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*