Savings in motor adaptation
Relearning a movement adjustment can be faster than learning it first. Which memories and processes produce that advantage?
Movement and the body
Learning movements, sensing a body, experiencing control and responding to touch.
Subjects: Movement and the body
Problems in this collection
8 problemsBody ownership
Vision and touch can make a rubber hand feel like your own. Which circuit processes produce this bodily attribution?
Sense of agency
We feel that our actions cause events. How do prediction and observed regularities combine to produce that feeling?
Interval timing
Brains judge durations and time actions over fractions of a second to seconds. How are those intervals represented and flexibly adjusted?
Ticklishness
Tickling can produce involuntary laughter and mixed feelings. How human touch processing, context and laughter circuits combine remains incomplete.
Hypnotic suggestion
A suggestion can change how an arm feels, how an action seems to happen, or what someone perceives. The mechanisms differ across people and suggestions.
Placebo analgesia
Expectations and learned treatment associations can reduce pain. Which mechanisms determine the effect and how long it lasts?
Psychological refractory period
Two quick tasks can make the second response wait. What controls that queue when response demands and task priorities change?