Motor control: correcting errors and learning from mistakes.
How do we learn from errors during complex movement tasks with redundancy? A new study shows that ambiguous mistakes in bimanual movements are corrected by the non-dominant hand, and responsibility for the error is assumed to fall to the effector with a recent history of poor performance.
Miall
Chris
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School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. r.c.miall@bham.ac.uk
D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006225:Hand / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*