Incremental exposure facilitates adaptation to sensory rearrangement
Lackner, J.R.; Lobovits, D.N.
Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine 49(2): 362-364
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0095-6562 PMID: 637790 Document Number: 134397
The rate of adaptation to unusual patterns of vestibular stimulation is enhanced if the final stimulus achieved gradually rather than in a single step. Measurements of adaptation to visual rearrangement elicited by stepwise and single-step exposure indicate that incremental exposure also facilitates adaptation to visual rearrangement; adaptation is diminished when the optical displacement is varied nonsystematically during exposure. Enhancement of adaptation to unusual patterns of sensory stimulation by incrmental exposure may reflect a general principle of sensorimotor function. [Undergraduate students were used as subjects.].