Reposted by Faisal Mushtaq
New work led by Max Townsend showing that the strategic response to a visuomotor rotation ('explicit adaptation') is best described as insight learning, rather than gradual error-based or explorative learning.
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An 'Aha!' moment precedes the strategic response to a visuomotor rotation
Strategic behaviour in sensorimotor adaptation tasks is typically modelled either as an error minimisation process or as a process of learning through trial-and-error. The former predicts a gradual re...