@article{202826,
  keywords = {motor adaptation; task complexity; explicit strategies; implicit recalibration},
  author = {Vikranth Bejjanki and Elizabeth Gaillard and Maya Taliaferro and Jordan A. Taylor},
  title = {Influence of Task Complexity on Visuomotor Adaptation},
  abstract = {<p>Recent work has shown that visuomotor adaptation is<br>supported by both implicit recalibration, which appears to be<br>highly constrained, and explicit strategies which seem more<br>flexible and capable of delivering rapid performance gains.<br>However, explicit strategies appear to have strict capacity<br>constraints, bearing remarkable similarity to the limits<br>observed with spatial working memory, which could limit their<br>usefulness in more complex learning problems. Here, we<br>sought to determine the ability of both explicit strategies and<br>implicit recalibration to overcome a complex set of visuomotor<br>perturbations. We find that implicit recalibration is unable to<br>track multiple perturbations, in line with prior findings. In<br>contrast, explicit strategies are effective when task complexity<br>is within the capacity of working memory. These findings<br>highlight the constraints that working memory imposes on<br>visuomotor adaptation and suggest that motor skill learning<br>may be limited by the demands placed on working memory.</p>},
  year = {2025},
  journal = {Proceedings of the 47th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society},
  pages = {5426-5433},
}