Japanese participants change aiming direction frequently even after successfully hitting the target¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r1 · q3
Currency · newest study 2025 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? About 24% of Norwegian and about 42% of Japanese participants changed their aiming direction even after hit trials, exceeding rates in previous American samples. → Yamada 2025

Evidence¶

Yamada 2025¶

Yamada, C., Itaguchi, Y., & Rodríguez-Aranda, C. (2025). Unconscious cultural cognitive biases in explicit processes of visuomotor adaptation. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-025-00335-0

q3 · i? · associational · r1

In the discussion of the cross-cultural aiming experiment, the authors report the percentages of aim changes after successful hit trials: "about 24% of the Norwegian participants and about 42% of the Japanese participants changed their aiming direction."

"even after hit trials (successes), about 24% of the Norwegian participants and about 42% of the Japanese participants changed their aiming direction."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Japanese participants change their aiming direction more frequently than Norwegian participants, regardless of previous hit or miss — related
• No correlation between the degree of target error and degree of aim change in either group — related
• Japanese participants show larger explicit aim than Norwegian participants during visuomotor adaptation — related
• Multi-state model parameters do not differ between Norwegian and Japanese groups — related