Browsing Psychology, Department of by Author "Flanagan, J. Randall"

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Generalisation of adaptation to a visuomotor rotation from curved to straight line reaching

Duncan, Jody (2009-04-22)

Numerous studies have investigated motor learning by examining the adaptation of reaching movements to visuomotor perturbations that alter the mapping between actual and visually perceived hand position. The picture of ...
The Optimality of Decision Making During Motor Learning

Moskowitz, Joshua (2016-06-14)

In our daily lives, we often must predict how well we are going to perform in the future based on an evaluation of our current performance and an assessment of how much we will improve with practice. Such predictions can ...
Representing the properties of object classes in manipulation and weight perception

Yak, Amelie (2011-09-30)

The ability to accurately predict object weight is essential for skilled manipulation and recent studies suggest that such prediction is based, in part, on learned size-weight maps associated with families of objects. ...
Sensorimotor Working Memory Capacity Limits

Bramwell, Ashley (2016-10-05)

Two novel studies examining the capacity and characteristics of working memory for object weights, experienced through lifting, were completed. Both studies employed visually identical objects of varying weight and focused ...