Psychology

Distinct patterns of connectivity with the motor cortex reflect different components of sensorimotor learning

C. N. Areshenkoff, A. J. D. Brouwer, et al.

Human fMRI reveals three distinct axes of connectivity between motor cortex and other brain regions during sensorimotor adaptation, each uniquely linked to implicit learning, performance errors, or explicit strategy use, and situated at increasing cortical hierarchy levels. Only the Explicit axis—a network of higher-order transmodal areas—predicts performance in a separate explicitly driven motor task. This research was conducted by Corson N. Areshenkoff, Anouk J. de Brouwer, Daniel J. Gale, Joseph Y. Nashed, Jonathan Smallwood, J. Randall Flanagan, and Jason P. Gallivan.