Sensorimotor Adaptation - Multiple Forms of Plasticity in Motor Circuits

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http://nro.sagepub.com/content/21/2/109?etoc
Valeria Della-Maggiore1
    Sofia M. Landi2
    Jorge I. Villalta1

    1Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
    2Laboratory of Neural Systems, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA

    Valeria Della-Maggiore, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, Paraguay 2155, 7th Floor, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Email: vdellamaggiore@fmed.uba.ar

Abstract

One of the most striking properties of the adult central nervous system is its ability to undergo changes in function and/or structure. In mammals, learning is a major inducer of adaptive plasticity. Sensorimotor adaptation is a type of procedural—motor—learning that allows maintaining accurate movements in the presence of environmental or internal perturbations by adjusting motor output. In this work, we will review experimental evidence gathered from rodents and human and nonhuman primates pointing to possible sites of adaptation-related plasticity at different levels of organization of the nervous system.