Journal article
Parietal damage impairs learning of a visuomotor tracking skill
Neuropsychologia, Vol.79(Pt A), pp.106-112
12/2015
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.10.038
PMID: 26536523
Abstract
This study evaluated the consequences of damage to the parietal lobe for learning a visuomotor tracking skill. Thirty subjects with a single unilateral brain lesion (13 with and 17 without parietal damage) and 23 demographically comparable healthy subjects performed the Rotary Pursuit task. For each group, time on target increased significantly across the four learning blocks. Subjects with parietal lesions had smaller improvements on the Rotary Pursuit from the 1st to the 4th block than subjects with lesions in other brain areas and healthy comparison subjects. The improvements on task performance from the 1st to the 2nd and from the 1st to the 3rd learning blocks were similar between groups. The parietal lobe appears to play an important role in the acquisition of a new visuomotor tracking skill, in particular during a relatively late phase of learning.
•The neural structures involved in learning the Rotary Pursuit skill were explored.•Subjects with parietal lobe lesions showed smaller improvements with practice.•The parietal lobe is involved in the acquisition of a new visuomotor tracking skill.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Parietal damage impairs learning of a visuomotor tracking skill
- Creators
- Sara Cavaco - Division of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USASteven W Anderson - Division of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USAKuan-Hua Chen - Division of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USAArmando Teixeira-Pinto - Screening and Test Evaluation Program, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, AustraliaHanna Damasio - Dornsife Cognitive Neuroscience Imaging Center and Brain and Creative Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Neuropsychologia, Vol.79(Pt A), pp.106-112
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.10.038
- PMID
- 26536523
- ISSN
- 0028-3932
- eISSN
- 1873-3514
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/2015
- Academic Unit
- Neurology
- Record Identifier
- 9984020794402771
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