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To investigate this, healthy adults performed repeated, goal-directed stepping trials while a robotic device applied lateral force field disruptions to the pelvis in alternating directions (left or right). We manipulated the force field's consistency (how often the force direction switched from trial to trial) and certainty (how predictable the switches were). We quantified motor adaptation (error reduction) and sought evidence for two predictive strategies: pattern prediction (detecting a global trial pattern) and carryover prediction (assuming the next trial matches the previous one). Adaptation profiles revealed a surprising finding: consistency, not certainty, drove predictive control. When trials were consistent, participants pursued appropriate predictive strategies (pattern or carryover). 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