title: Implicit and explicit representations of hand position in tool use.
abstract: Understanding the interactions of visual and proprioceptive information in tool use is important as it is the basis for learning of the tool's kinematic transformation and thus skilled performance. This study investigated how the CNS combines seen cursor positions and felt hand positions under a visuo-motor rotation paradigm. Young and older adult participants performed aiming movements on a digitizer while looking at rotated visual feedback on a monitor. After each movement, they judged either the proprioceptively sensed hand direction or the visually sensed cursor direction. We identified asymmetric mutual biases with a strong visual dominance. Furthermore, we found a number of differences between explicit and implicit judgments of hand directions. The explicit judgments had considerably larger variability than the implicit judgments. The bias toward the cursor direction for the explicit judgments was about twice as strong as for the implicit judgments. The individual biases of explicit and implicit judgments were uncorrelated. Biases of these judgments exhibited opposite sequential effects. Moreover, age-related changes were also different between these judgments. The judgment variability was decreased and the bias toward the cursor direction was increased with increasing age only for the explicit judgments. These results indicate distinct explicit and implicit neural representations of hand direction, similar to the notion of distinct visual systems.
authors.affiliation: IfADo-Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund, Germany. rand@ifado.de
authors.forename: Miya K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Rand
authors.forename: Herbert
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Heuer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006225:Hand / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D011434:Proprioception / Q000502:physiology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D053001:Tool Use Behavior; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
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