Manual Tracking Adaptation: Challenging Hand-Cursor Mappings

This lecture by the instructor focuses on the adaptation of manual tracking to challenging hand-cursor mappings. It explores the significance of manual tracking as a proxy for object manipulation, feedback control, eye-hand coordination, and sensorimotor adaptation. The lecture delves into the study of manual tracking in the instructor's lab, comparing bimanual and unimanual tracking, optimal control theory, and the differences between right and left hand tracking. It also discusses hypotheses related to the larger contribution of the dominant hand and the natural tendency for similar hand movements. The lecture further examines the modularity of adaptation in visuomotor mappings and the combination of rotated and spring mappings. Finally, it presents findings on the composition and decomposition of tasks in combined mappings.