Who made the error? The brain distinguishes causes of errors to perform adaptation

Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 10:00 in Psychology & Sociology

Scientists examined positions to detect motor and target errors and whether error signals from these positions were used for learning, finding that the parietal lobe detected causes of motor errors in arm reaching and provided signals to compensate for errors. They also revealed that Brodmann area 5 detected the self-generated motor error and that Brodmann area 7 detected target error caused by target movements, both providing error signals for adaptation.

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