RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Interlimb Generalization of Learned Bayesian Visuomotor Prior Occurs in Extrinsic Coordinates JF eneuro JO eNeuro FD Society for Neuroscience SP ENEURO.0183-18.2018 DO 10.1523/ENEURO.0183-18.2018 VO 5 IS 4 A1 Christopher L. Hewitson A1 Paul F. Sowman A1 David M. Kaplan YR 2018 UL http://www.eneuro.org/content/5/4/ENEURO.0183-18.2018.abstract AB Recent work suggests that the brain represents probability distributions and performs Bayesian integration during sensorimotor learning. However, our understanding of the neural representation of this learning remains limited. To begin to address this, we performed two experiments. In the first experiment, we replicated the key behavioral findings of Körding and Wolpert (2004), demonstrating that humans can perform in a Bayes-optimal manner by combining information about their own sensory uncertainty and a statistical distribution of lateral shifts encountered in a visuomotor adaptation task. In the second experiment, we extended these findings by testing whether visuomotor learning occurring during the same task generalizes from one limb to the other, and relatedly, whether this learning is represented in an extrinsic or intrinsic reference frame. We found that the learned mean of the distribution of visuomotor shifts generalizes to the opposite limb only when the perturbation is congruent in extrinsic coordinates, indicating that the underlying representation of learning acquired during training is available to the untrained limb and is coded in an extrinsic reference frame.