Volume 1, Number 2, Article 3, Pages 88-98 doi:10.1167/1.2.3 http://journalofvision.org/1/2/3/ ISSN 1534-7362
Driving in the future: Temporal visuomotor adaptation and generalization
Douglas W. Cunningham
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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Astros Chatziastros
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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Markus von der Heyde
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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Heinrich H. Bülthoff
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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Abstract

Rapid and accurate visuomotor coordination requires tight spatial and temporal sensorimotor synchronization. The introduction of a sensorimotor or intersensory misalignment (either spatial or temporal) impairs performance on most tasks. For more than a century, it has been known that a few minutes of exposure to a spatial misalignment can induce a recalibration of sensorimotor spatial relationships, a phenomenon that may be referred to as spatial visuomotor adaptation. Here, we use a high-fidelity driving simulator to demonstrate that the sensorimotor system can adapt to temporal misalignments on very complex tasks, a phenomenon that we refer to as temporal visuomotor adaptation. We demonstrate that adapting on a single street produces an adaptive state that generalizes to other streets. This shows that temporal visuomotor adaptation is not specific to a single visuomotor transformation, but generalizes across a class of transformations. Temporal visuomotor adaptation is strikingly parallel to spatial visuomotor adaptation, and has strong implications for the understanding of visuomotor coordination and intersensory integration.

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Received February 6, 2001; published October 30, 2001
Citation
Cunningham, D. W., Chatziastros, A., von der Heyde, M., & Bülthoff, H. H. (2001). Driving in the future: Temporal visuomotor adaptation and generalization. Journal of Vision, 1(2):3, 88-98, http://journalofvision.org/1/2/3/, doi:10.1167/1.2.3.
Keywords
prism adaptation, spatial adaptation, visuomotor adaptation, sensorimotor integration, perceptual learning
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