A recent study suggests that reafferent hand-related visual information utilizes a privileged, attention-independent processing channel for motor control. This process was termed visuomotor binding to reflect its proposed function: linking visual reafferences to the corresponding motor control centers. Here, we ask whether the advantage of processing reafferent over exafferent visual informatio...

The present fMRI study investigated the neural areas involved in implicit perceptual sequence learning. To obtain more insight in the functional contributions of the brain areas, we tracked both the behavioral and neural time course of the learning process, using a perceptual serial color matching task. Next, to investigate whether the neural time course was specific for perceptual information,...

The present study investigated the effect of auditory training on the acquisition of a new articulatory skill. German speakers were trained to imitate a three-way voicing contrast in intervocalic bilabial plosives. Production training was either accompanied by perceptual training with all three distinctions (full training) or only the native two-way contrast (partial training). We found that fu...