Target Shift

Reach for targets while your cursor is rotated — feel your brain adapt in real time.

About This Game

Target Shift introduces a visuomotor perturbation: your cursor moves at a rotated angle relative to your hand. At first you miss — then, within minutes, your cerebellum adapts and you become accurate again. Remove the perturbation and you'll notice an aftereffect.

What It Trains

• Motor adaptation: Adjusting movements based on error feedback
• Implicit learning: The cerebellum learns without conscious effort
• Sensorimotor integration: Coordinating visual and motor information

The Science

Visuomotor adaptation is a paradigm used extensively in motor neuroscience to study cerebellar function. The cerebellum computes internal models of movement, predicting sensory consequences and correcting errors automatically — the same process that makes you a skilled typist or musician.

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