Gender Differences in Prism Adaptation as Influenced by a Secondary Task

This experiment investigated prism adaptation as influenced by performing a secondary task during the adapting and by the gender of the subject. Experimental subjects (10 males and 10 females) performed a secondary force-production task with the left hand, while adapting to prismatic displacement with the right (target-pointing). Control subjects (n = 20) were not required to perform the force-production task. While male subjects were not …