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Improvements due to perceptual training are often specific to the trained task and do not generalize to similar perceptual tasks1. Surprisingly, given this history of highly constrained, context-specific perceptual learning, we found that training on a perceptual task showed significant transfer to a motor task. This result provides evidence for a common neural architecture underlying analysis of sensory input and control of motor output, and suggests a potential role for perception in motor development and rehabilitation.
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This work was supported by NIH grants T32-MH19942 and R29- MH54770, and NSF research grant SBR-9873477.
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Meegan, D., Aslin, R. & Jacobs, R. Motor timing learned without motor training. Nat Neurosci 3, 860–862 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/78757
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