Presentation 2024-03-12
Exploring Motor Memory Structure for Hand Reaching from the Viewpoint of Segregation and Integration
Akari Ogawa, Naotoshi Abekawa, Hiroaki Gomi,
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Abstract(in English) Two opposing motor skills, which normally prevent learning due to a memory interference, can be acquired when each is associated with the external-world or body states (context-dependent motor learning). While much research has intensively examined what states can reduce the interference, it has remained unclear how multiple memories acquired simultaneously relate to each other. Here we focused on the segregation and integration of multiple memories, and examined such structure using the visuomotor rotation paradigm. In the experiment, arm-reaching movements were classified into four trial-types with respect to the spatial combination of visual targets and gaze positions. Participants experienced opposing rotational perturbations (CW or CCW) on each trial-type. After learning, we de-adapted only one trial type, and subsequently examined the effect of this de-adaptation on the remaining other trial types. In this task design, if de-adaptation of one memory leads to de-adaptation of the other memory, these two memories are considered to be linked. Preliminary experiments revealed relatively complex patterns of memory structure, contrary to expectations based on task-optimal strategies.
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Keyword(in English) sensorimotor control / eye-hand coordination / implicit memory / human psychophysical experiments
Paper # NC2023-55
Date of Issue 2024-03-04 (NC)

Conference Information
Committee NC / MBE
Conference Date 2024/3/11(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) The Univ. of Tokyo
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Brain architecture, General
Chair Hirokazu Tanaka(Tokyo City Univ.) / Hisashi Yoshida(Kinki Univ.)
Vice Chair Jun Izawa(Univ. of Tsukub) / Akinori Ueno(Tokyo Denki Univ.)
Secretary Jun Izawa(NTT) / Akinori Ueno(NAIST)
Assistant Yoshimasa Tawatsuji(Waseda Univ.) / Takato Horii(Osaka Univ.) / Akihiko Tsukahara(Tokyo Denki Univ.) / Miki Kaneko(Osaka Univ.)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Neurocomputing / Technical Committee on ME and Bio Cybernetics
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Exploring Motor Memory Structure for Hand Reaching from the Viewpoint of Segregation and Integration
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) sensorimotor control
Keyword(2) eye-hand coordination
Keyword(3) implicit memory
Keyword(4) human psychophysical experiments
1st Author's Name Akari Ogawa
1st Author's Affiliation Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation(NTT)
2nd Author's Name Naotoshi Abekawa
2nd Author's Affiliation Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation(NTT)
3rd Author's Name Hiroaki Gomi
3rd Author's Affiliation Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation(NTT)
Date 2024-03-12
Paper # NC2023-55
Volume (vol) vol.123
Number (no) NC-418
Page pp.pp.69-74(NC),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2024-03-04 (NC)