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ArticleNature human behaviour2024

Large-scale citizen science reveals predictors of sensorimotor adaptation.

Jonathan S Tsay, Hrach Asmerian, Laura T Germine, Jeremy Wilmer, Richard B Ivry, Ken Nakayama

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Article in Nature human behaviour, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  3. Skill Memory Expansion Shapes Micro-Scale Dynamics of Skill Learning.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  11. Indirect feedback hinders explicit sensorimotor adaptation.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025
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  14. The Brain's Sensitivity to Sensory Error Can Be Modulated by Altering Perceived Variability.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  20. Motor adaptation is reduced by symbolic compared to sensory feedback.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Jonathan S Tsay *Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. xiaotsay2015@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-3992-9023
Hrach Asmerian *Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. Hrach.Asmerian@berkeley.edu.ORCID 0009-0004-6448-9156
Laura T GermineDepartment of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Jeremy WilmerDepartment of Psychology, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1526-4271
Richard B IvryDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Ken NakayamaDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.

Funding

Human Cerebellar Function in Multiple Task DomainsR35NS116883 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI RICHARD IVRY · 2020 to 2026
$5.3M
Mobile Measures of Threat Sensitivity for Cross-sectional and Longitudinal AssessmentR01MH121617 · NIMH · MCLEAN HOSPITAL · PI GERMINE, LAURA THI · 2020 to 2025
$3.9M
Neural Mechanisms Supporting Implicit and Explicit Sensorimotor LearningF31NS120448 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI TSAY, JONATHAN · 2022 to 2023
$62k
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH121617U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) 1F31NS120448U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) R35NS116883-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sensorimotor adaptation is essential for keeping our movements well calibrated in response to changes in the body and environment. For over a century, researchers have studied sensorimotor adaptation in laboratory settings that typically involve small sample sizes. While this approach has proved useful for characterizing different learning processes, laboratory studies are not well suited for exploring the myriad of factors that may modulate human performance. Here, using a citizen science website, we collected over 2,000 sessions of data on a visuomotor rotation task. This unique dataset has allowed us to replicate, reconcile and challenge classic findings in the learning and memory literature, as well as discover unappreciated demographic constraints associated with implicit and explicit processes that support sensorimotor adaptation. More generally, this study exemplifies how a large-scale exploratory approach can complement traditional hypothesis-driven laboratory research in advancing sensorimotor neuroscience.

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Citizen SciencePsychomotor PerformanceHumansLearningMovementRotation

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PMID38291127

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