Human motor adaptation is often described as an automatic process insensitive to reward- or punishment-based feedback. Contrary to this hypothesis, Galea et al. show through a double dissociation that negative and positive feedback have independent effects on the learning and retention components of motor adaptation, respectively. These results promise to have significant implications for the understanding and optimization of motor adaptation.
- Joseph M Galea
- Elizabeth Mallia
- Jörn Diedrichsen
