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Presentation 2012-10-11 11:10
Separate neural substrates for two distinct rotational transformations in visuomotor learning
Kenji Ogawa (ATR/JSPS), Hiroshi Imamizu (ATR/NICT) MBE2012-38
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(in English) Behavioral studies showed that humans can adapt to conflicting sensorimotor mappings that causes interference after intensive training. While previous researches indicate involvement of distinct brain regions for different types of motor learning (e.g. kinematics vs. dynamics), the neural mechanisms underlying joint adaptation to conflicting mappings within the same type of perturbation (e.g. different angles of visuomotor rotation) remain unclear. To reveal neural substrates that represent multiple sensorimotor mappings, we examined if different mappings can be classified with multi-voxel activity patterns of functional magnetic resonance imaging data. Participants simultaneously adapted to opposite rotational perturbations (+90 and -90 degrees) during visuomotor tracking. To dissociate differences in movement kinematics with rotation-types, we employed two distinct patterns of target motion and tested generalization of the classifier between different combinations of rotation- and motion-types. Results showed that the rotation-types were classified significantly above chance using activities in the primary sensorimotor cortex and the supplementary motor area as well as the anterior part of cerebellum, despite no significant differences in averaged signal amplitudes within the region. Our results reveal that the sensorimotor and cerebellar cortices represent different visuomotor mappings, which permits joint learning and switching between conflicting sensorimotor skills.
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(in English) Visuomotor learning / Sensorimotor cortex / Cerebellum / fMRI multi-voxel pattern analysis / / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 112, no. 232, MBE2012-38, pp. 11-16, Oct. 2012.
Paper # MBE2012-38 
Date of Issue 2012-10-04 (MBE) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Committee MBE  
Conference Date 2012-10-11 - 2012-10-11 
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Place (in English) Osaka Electro-Communication University 
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Topics (in English) ME in general 
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Conference Code 2012-10-MBE 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) Separate neural substrates for two distinct rotational transformations in visuomotor learning 
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Keyword(1) Visuomotor learning  
Keyword(2) Sensorimotor cortex  
Keyword(3) Cerebellum  
Keyword(4) fMRI multi-voxel pattern analysis  
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1st Author's Name Kenji Ogawa  
1st Author's Affiliation Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International/ Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (ATR/JSPS)
2nd Author's Name Hiroshi Imamizu  
2nd Author's Affiliation Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International/National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (ATR/NICT)
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Date Time 2012-10-11 11:10:00 
Presentation Time 25 minutes 
Registration for MBE 
Paper # MBE2012-38 
Volume (vol) vol.112 
Number (no) no.232 
Page pp.11-16 
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Date of Issue 2012-10-04 (MBE) 


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