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Reaching with visual feedback that is misaligned with respect to the actual hand’s location leads to changes in reach trajectories (i.e., visuomotor adaptation). Previous studies have also demonstrated that when training to reach with misaligned visual feedback of the hand, the opposite hand also partially adapts, providing evidence of intermanual transfer. Moreover, our laboratory has shown that visuomotor adaptation to a misaligned hand cursor, either translated or rotated relative to the hand, also leads to changes in felt hand position (what we call proprioceptive recalibration), such that subjects’ estimate of felt hand position relative to both visual and non-visual reference markers (e.g., body midline) shifts in the direction of the visuomotor distortion. In the present study, we first determined the extent that motor adaptation to a translated cursor leads to transfer to the opposite hand, and whether this transfer differs across the dominant and non-dominant hands. Second, we looked to establish whether changes in hand proprioception that occur with the trained hand following adaptation also transfer to the untrained hand. We found intermanual motor transfer to the left untrained (non-dominant) hand after subjects trained their right (dominant) hand to reach with translated visual feedback of their hand. Motor transfer from the left trained to the right untrained hand was not observed. Despite finding changes in felt hand position in both trained hands, we did not find similar evidence of proprioceptive recalibration in the right or left untrained hands. Taken together, our results suggest that unlike visuomotor adaptation, proprioceptive recalibration does not transfer between hands and is specific only to the arm exposed to the distortion.
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We would like to thank Rozbeh Kamran-Disfani for help with data collection. This work was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). Ahmed A. Mostafa is supported by the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MOHE).
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Mostafa, A.A., Salomonczyk, D., Cressman, E.K. et al. Intermanual transfer and proprioceptive recalibration following training with translated visual feedback of the hand. Exp Brain Res 232, 1639–1651 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-014-3833-0
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