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Research in human motor control has led to the hypothesis that the central nervous system integrates an internal model with sensory feedback in order to generate accurate movements. However, how the brain understands external force through exploration movements, and how humans accurately estimate a force from their experience of the force, is yet to be fully understood. To address these questions, we tested human behaviour in different stiffness profiles even though the force at the goal was the same. We generated one linear and two non-linear stiffness profiles, which required the same force at the target but different forces half-way to the target; we then measured the differences in the learning performance at the target and the differences in perception at the half-way point. Human subjects learned the stiffness profile through repetitive movements in reaching the target, and then indicated their estimation of half of the target value (position and force separately). This experimental design enabled us to probe how perception of the force experienced in different profiles affects the participants\u2019 estimations. We observed that the early parts of the learning curves were different for the three stiffness profiles. Secondly, the position estimates were accurate independent of the stiffness profile. The estimation in position was most likely influenced by the external environment rather than the profile itself. 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