Relationship between overall right pre-frontal cortex activity and learning and retention of a visuomotor adaptation task: A continuous analysis.

Learning a visuomotor adaptation task (VMA) is typically assessed by describing the behavioral changes during adaption (early-fast and late-slow phases) and retention (consolidation) tests. Few studies have concurrently examined behavioral and brain activity during this type of learning and therefor...

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Publicado en:Psychology of Sport & Exercise Vol. 79
Autores principales: Ramos, M.Á., Busquets, A., Ferrer-Uris, B., Eken, A., Beslija, F., Zhang, F., Durduran, T., Angulo-Barroso, R.
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. Jul2025
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          Ramos, M.Á.
          Busquets, A.
          Ferrer-Uris, B.
          Eken, A.
          Beslija, F.
          Zhang, F.
          Durduran, T.
          Angulo-Barroso, R.
        affil: Institut Nacional d'Educació Física de Catalunya (INEFC), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain
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          Prefrontal Cortex Physiology
          Learning
          Psychomotor Performance
          Memory
          Adaptation, Physiological
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          Motor Skills
          Hemodynamics
          Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared
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          Young Adult
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      ab: Learning a visuomotor adaptation task (VMA) is typically assessed by describing the behavioral changes during adaption (early-fast and late-slow phases) and retention (consolidation) tests. Few studies have concurrently examined behavioral and brain activity during this type of learning and therefore their time-dependent dynamics is unknown. It has been proposed that two distinct strategies can be used during such learning: a model-free and a model-based, which distinctively involved explicit and implicit learning strategies. It has also been proposed that prefrontal cortex (PFC) is more implicated when explicit processes are more relevant as it was observed in the early adaptation (Taylor & Ivry, 2014; Wolpe et al., 2020). Additionally, an explicit model-based strategy has been inferred when prefrontal (PFC) activity increases. Therefore, the study's aims were: (1) to examine the continuous temporal dynamics of behavior and right PFC activity during adaptation and retention of a VMA, and (2) to infer the implication of explicit processes during the learning of a VMA derived from right PFC activity. Eighteen young adults (24.22 ± 3.12 years) took part in this study. Continuous measures of the performance (the initial directional error, IDE, and the root mean square error, RMSE) of a rotational visuomotor adaptation task during an adaptation (AD) and two retention sets at 1 h (RT1) and 24 h (RT24) were collected. Concurrently, measures of the right PFC activity (relative changes of the oxyhemoglobin concentration, [ΔO 2 Hb]) were registered via a three-channel functional near-infrared spectroscopy device. General linear mixed models were run to explore differences across adaptation and retentions. Also, cross-correlations between performance (IDE and RMSE) and PFC activity were conducted to observe their relation during sets. The main results indicated that (1) initial fast behavioral improvement (decrease of IDE and RMSE) did not occur simultaneously with the largest increase of the [ΔO 2 Hb] in the PFC during the AD, and (2) there was similar performance in the RT1 and RT24 but possibly involving the PFC differently. While in both retentions the errors improved after the first trials, in RT1, the [ΔO 2 Hb] decreased from the very beginning, whereas the PFC activity initially increased in RT24. Our observations would suggest that various cooperating learning strategies, including model-free (i.e., exploratory) and model-based explicit (i.e., strategy) and implicit (i.e., sensory prediction errors), are coordinated in different timings to cooperate during the sensorimotor adaptation and consolidation processes. Furthermore, the involvement of these strategies during the retention may depend on the time elapsed from the end of the adaptation to the re-introduction of the task. • Prefrontal cortex (PFC) activity seems to rise gradually when adaptive task starts. • PFC activity rose through the first trials of the retention at 24 h but not at 1h. • Multiple explicit and implicit strategies may cooperate in sensorimotor learning. • These strategies might be coordinated in different timing in a push-pull manner. • Time lapsed to task re-introduction could affect the strategies used in retention.
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