Trust as in, is the linear fit shown indeed calculated based on the data? Maybe, there are many blue dots on the top-right. More color contrast would be nice! Trust as in, is a linear fit a good description of what's going on here, not so sure...

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Congratulations Sam!

Correct, all mysteries in the brain will be unveiled through the *cough* prism of visuomotor rotations.

This suggests a clear benefit for latency reduction in computer-based training that involves implicit sensorimotor learning. Critically, it means that across-study differences may be explained by differences in unmeasured feedback latencies. We thus need to measure, report, and minimize latency. 6/6

We found that, just a 60 ms increase in latency (from 25 ms to 85 ms) decreased implicit learning by 1/3 and increased explicit learning proportionally. Implicit sensorimotor learning was much more (5-10x) sensitive to latencies in the sub- 100 ms range than to higher latencies. 5/6

We trained participants on a visuomotor rotation (VMR) under latencies of 25, 85, or 300ms. 25ms was the minimum we could achieve in our optimized setup; 85ms is within the latencies expected on an average setup. We dissected learning into implicit and explicit components using aim reports. 4/6

Neurophysiology suggests that learning-related mechanisms such as cerebellar LTD and cortical LTP are disrupted by similarly short latencies, so this question might be worth investigating. 3/6

Short delays in visual feedback (under 100 ms) are common in human-computer interactions—and, while hard to perceive, they’re known to hurt performance in tasks like pointing or robotic surgery. Do these tiny lags also impair sensorimotor learning? 2/6

Is it Kobe or somewhere by the Aegean?

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Following up on my email from last year

I had a similar experience - it was a schematic based on a photo, where you could arguably recognize the participant (one of the authors on the paper!) I guess biorxiv doesn't want to deal with permissions etc. so the simplest thing to do is avoid human photography altogether.

My take/intuition is that, talking to a human (or at least being convinced that you are) matters by itself. The exact same responses won't be as effective if one suspects the therapist is an LLM

Thanks for putting this together! I'd like to be added.