Corticostriatal activity related to performance during continuous de novo motor learning

Abstract Corticostriatal regions play a pivotal role in visuomotor learning. However, less research has been done on how fMRI activity in their subregions is related to task performance, which is provided as visual feedback during motor learning. To address this, we conducted an fMRI experiment in w...

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Main Authors: Sungbeen Park, Junghyun Kim, Sungshin Kim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-02-01
Series:Scientific Reports
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-54176-9
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description Abstract Corticostriatal regions play a pivotal role in visuomotor learning. However, less research has been done on how fMRI activity in their subregions is related to task performance, which is provided as visual feedback during motor learning. To address this, we conducted an fMRI experiment in which participants acquired a complex de novo motor skill using continuous or binary visual feedback related to performance. We found a highly selective response related to performance in the entire striatum in both conditions and a relatively higher response in the caudate nucleus for the binary feedback condition. However, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) response was significant only for the continuous feedback condition. Furthermore, we also found functional distinction of the striatal subregions in random versus goal-directed motor control. These findings underscore the substantial effects of the visual feedback indicating performance on distinct corticostriatal responses, thereby elucidating its significance in reinforcement-based motor learning.
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spelling doaj.art-5fcc8464ba6e459e8126a2d8f9593f762024-03-05T18:48:00ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222024-02-0114111110.1038/s41598-024-54176-9Corticostriatal activity related to performance during continuous de novo motor learningSungbeen Park0Junghyun Kim1Sungshin Kim2Department of Artificial Intelligence, Hanyang UniversityDepartment of Data Science, Hanyang UniversityDepartment of Artificial Intelligence, Hanyang UniversityAbstract Corticostriatal regions play a pivotal role in visuomotor learning. However, less research has been done on how fMRI activity in their subregions is related to task performance, which is provided as visual feedback during motor learning. To address this, we conducted an fMRI experiment in which participants acquired a complex de novo motor skill using continuous or binary visual feedback related to performance. We found a highly selective response related to performance in the entire striatum in both conditions and a relatively higher response in the caudate nucleus for the binary feedback condition. However, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) response was significant only for the continuous feedback condition. Furthermore, we also found functional distinction of the striatal subregions in random versus goal-directed motor control. These findings underscore the substantial effects of the visual feedback indicating performance on distinct corticostriatal responses, thereby elucidating its significance in reinforcement-based motor learning.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-54176-9StriatumMotor skill learningfMRIVisual feedback
spellingShingle Sungbeen Park
Junghyun Kim
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Corticostriatal activity related to performance during continuous de novo motor learning
Scientific Reports
Striatum
Motor skill learning
fMRI
Visual feedback
title Corticostriatal activity related to performance during continuous de novo motor learning
title_full Corticostriatal activity related to performance during continuous de novo motor learning
title_fullStr Corticostriatal activity related to performance during continuous de novo motor learning
title_full_unstemmed Corticostriatal activity related to performance during continuous de novo motor learning
title_short Corticostriatal activity related to performance during continuous de novo motor learning
title_sort corticostriatal activity related to performance during continuous de novo motor learning
topic Striatum
Motor skill learning
fMRI
Visual feedback
url https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-54176-9
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