Journal of Motor BehaviorPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-03-14DOI: 10.1080/00222895.2024.2327397
Christina Pfeifer, Julia Harenz, Charles H Shea, Stefan Panzer
{"title":"Dual-Task and Single-Task Practice Does Not Influence the Attentional Demands of Movement Sequence Representations.","authors":"Christina Pfeifer, Julia Harenz, Charles H Shea, Stefan Panzer","doi":"10.1080/00222895.2024.2327397","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00222895.2024.2327397","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined the attentional demands of movement sequence representations at different temporal points after single- or dual-task practice. The visual-spatial representation encodes the movement based on visual-spatial coordinates such as the target locations. The motor representation encodes the movement in motor coordinates including joint angles and muscle activation patterns. Participants were randomly assigned to a single-task or dual-task practice group. Following acquisition, participants performed two retention tests and inter-manual transfer tests, both under dual-task and single-task. The transfer tests consisted of a mirror and non-mirror test and examined motor and visual-spatial representation development. The main finding is that attentional demands of the sequence representations were not affected by the practice condition. However, movement initiation requires more attention than the end of the movement in both representations.</p>","PeriodicalId":50125,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Motor Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"462-474"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140133119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Motor BehaviorPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-02-26DOI: 10.1080/00222895.2024.2320904
Fatemeh Shamsi, Hadi Aligholi, Mohammad Taghi Karimi, Afshin Borhani-Haghighi, Mohammad Nami
{"title":"Quantitative EEG for the Monitoring of Walking Recovery in Chronic Stroke Patients Receiving Action Observation Training.","authors":"Fatemeh Shamsi, Hadi Aligholi, Mohammad Taghi Karimi, Afshin Borhani-Haghighi, Mohammad Nami","doi":"10.1080/00222895.2024.2320904","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00222895.2024.2320904","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current study aimed to evaluate the effects of action observation on the walking ability and oscillatory brain activity of chronic stroke patients. Fourteen chronic stroke patients were allocated randomly to the action observation (AO) or sham observation (SO) groups. Both groups received 12 sessions of intervention. Each session composed of 12 min of observational training, which depicted exercises for the experimental group but nature pictures for the sham group and 40 min of occupational therapy, which was the same for the both groups. Walking ability was assessed by a motion analysis system and brain activity was monitored using quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG) before and after the intervention. Brain asymmetry at alpha frequency, the percentage of stance phase, and step length showed significant changes in the AO group. Only the change in global alpha power was significantly correlated with the change in velocity after the intervention in AO group. Despite more improvements in walking and brain activity of patients in the AO group, our study failed to show significant correlations between the brain activity changes and functional improvements after the intervention, which might be mainly due to the small sample size in our study. Trial registration: IRCT20181014041333N1.</p>","PeriodicalId":50125,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Motor Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"428-438"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139974340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Motor BehaviorPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-07-16DOI: 10.1080/00222895.2024.2368120
Motoki Sakurai, Kate A Spitzley, Andrew R Karduna
{"title":"Awareness of Visual Offset Reduces but Does Not Eliminate Joint Repositioning Errors in Virtual Reality.","authors":"Motoki Sakurai, Kate A Spitzley, Andrew R Karduna","doi":"10.1080/00222895.2024.2368120","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00222895.2024.2368120","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present study investigated the effect of visual offset (visuo-proprioceptive mismatch) in joint repositioning task in a three-dimensional virtual reality (VR) environment when participants were instructed to ignore vision. Twenty-five physically healthy young individuals performed shoulder joint position sense test. Repositioning accuracy was tested under two visual conditions, accurate and offset visions, and two instructions, no guidance or ignore vision. In accurate vision trials, the virtual hand of the tested limb seen in VR was congruent with where the participant placed their hand. In the offset vision condition, the virtual hand was seen 8° above or below their actual hand in the vertical plane. Repositioning error (i.e. constant error) in offset vision trials was lower when the participants were instructed to ignore vision compared to when no instruction about the visual offset was given (<i>p</i> < 0.001). However, constant error in offset vision trials was larger than accurate vision trials when the participants tried to ignore vision in both visual conditions (<i>p</i> < 0.001). Our results suggest that humans may be able to down-weight vision to some extent by conscious effort, while the influence of vision is difficult to eliminate when vision is present.</p>","PeriodicalId":50125,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Motor Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"592-599"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141629204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Motor BehaviorPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2023-07-02DOI: 10.1080/00222895.2023.2231874
Chelsea Parker Duppen, Hailey Wrona, Eran Dayan, Michael D Lewek
{"title":"Evidence of Implicit and Explicit Motor Learning during Gait Training with Distorted Rhythmic Auditory Cues.","authors":"Chelsea Parker Duppen, Hailey Wrona, Eran Dayan, Michael D Lewek","doi":"10.1080/00222895.2023.2231874","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00222895.2023.2231874","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Gait training with rhythmic auditory cues contains motor learning mechanisms that are weighted more explicitly than implicitly. However, various clinical populations may benefit from a shift to gait training with greater implicit motor learning mechanisms. To investigate the ability to incorporate more implicit-weighted motor learning processes during rhythmic auditory cueing, we attempted to induce error-based recalibration using a subtly varying metronome cue for naïve unimpaired young adults. We assessed the extent of implicit and explicit retention after both an isochronous metronome and subtly varying metronome frequency during treadmill and overground walking. Despite 90% of participants remaining unaware of the changing metronome frequency, participants adjusted their cadence and step length to the subtly changing metronome, both on a treadmill and overground (<i>p</i> < 0.05). However, despite evidence of both implicit and explicit processes involved with each metronome (i.e., isochronous and varying), there were no between-condition differences in implicit or explicit retention for cadence, step length, or gait speed, and thus no increased implicit learning advantage with the addition of error-based recalibration for young, unimpaired adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":50125,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Motor Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"42-51"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9742987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Motor BehaviorPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-07-12DOI: 10.1080/00222895.2024.2375553
Henrik Borge Garnaas, Roland van den Tillaar
{"title":"Implicit Versus Explicit Learning a Novel Skill for High School Students.","authors":"Henrik Borge Garnaas, Roland van den Tillaar","doi":"10.1080/00222895.2024.2375553","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00222895.2024.2375553","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of the study was to compare the effects of implicit learning using dual task-paradigm, with explicit learning on learning a novel skill, and if the performance is maintained over a prolonged period of time. Twenty-six high school adolescents (<i>n</i> = 26, boys <i>n</i> = 15, girls <i>n</i> = 11, age: 16 ± 0.66 years) performed a four-week front-flip learning program, where participants underwent two hours front flip practice in total between the pre- and post-test session followed by two tests; three and six months after the post-test, in which the front-flip was not practiced. Performance was evaluated by two independent gymnastics judges. Both groups increased performance at the post test, with significantly higher scores in the explicit group compared with the implicit group. Probably benefiting from error correction to select positive action outcomes and avoid negative ones consciously. However, the explicit group was also the only group that significantly decreased performance again at first retention test, suggesting that their reliance on the retrieval of declarative knowledge from working memory was subject to decay. While it seems that performance learned <i>via</i> implicit learning may deteriorate more slowly, but also continuously throughout six months suggesting that the directly accumulated procedural knowledge may need for proper reinforcement and practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":50125,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Motor Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"697-704"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141591907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Motor BehaviorPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2023-12-21DOI: 10.1080/00222895.2023.2293000
Nicolette A Peterson, Alen Hajnal, Jeffrey B Wagman, Thomas A Stoffregen
{"title":"The Complexity of Head Movement is Correlated with Learning about Affordances for Walking.","authors":"Nicolette A Peterson, Alen Hajnal, Jeffrey B Wagman, Thomas A Stoffregen","doi":"10.1080/00222895.2023.2293000","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00222895.2023.2293000","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We asked whether the quantitative kinematics of standing postural activity might be related to short-term learning of affordances. Standing participants viewed a narrow path for 15 s, and then gave perceptual reports about the distance that they could walk along the path while wearing a weighted vest (novel affordance) or while not wearing the vest (familiar affordance). In a control condition, participants gave perceptual reports about egocentric distance along the path. During the 15 s viewing intervals, we measured the kinematics of head and torso movement as standing participants made a series of 12 perceptual reports. Perceptual reports improved across trials, but only in the condition in which participants were asked to perceive a novel affordance. The dynamical complexity of head movement changed across trials as participants gave perceptual reports about the novel affordance, but did not change systematically when perceiving a familiar affordance, or a non-affordance egocentric distance. We argue that the dynamical complexity of postural activity may have served an exploratory function supporting the learning of a novel affordance. Our results are consistent with the broader hypothesis that affordances are learned through active engagement with the environment, rather than (for example) through abstract cognitive processing.</p>","PeriodicalId":50125,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Motor Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"275-289"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138832673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Motor BehaviorPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2023-07-30DOI: 10.1080/00222895.2023.2241403
Ata Elvan, Selin Kirişçi, Melda Başer Seçer, Özge Çeliker Tosun, Gökhan Tosun
{"title":"Does Phase of the Menstrual Cycle Affect Balance and Postural Control?","authors":"Ata Elvan, Selin Kirişçi, Melda Başer Seçer, Özge Çeliker Tosun, Gökhan Tosun","doi":"10.1080/00222895.2023.2241403","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00222895.2023.2241403","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of the study is to examine the effects of menstrual cycle phases (MCP) on balance and postural control. The study was carried out with 63 volunteer women. Digital ovulation kits and, a Menstrual Cycle Regularity Questionnaire (MCRQ) to detect menstrual cycle regularity and duration, Premenstrual Syndrome Questionnaire (PMSQ) to question the presence of premenstrual syndrome, Menstruation Attitude Questionnaire (MAQ) to assess menstrual attitudes, International Physical Activity Questionnaire Short Form (IPAQ-SF) to question physical activity level was used. Balance and postural oscillation were evaluated with Balance Master balance and performance test device and Tekscan MatScan™ Pressure Mat System, respectively. All evaluations were repeated twice, in the preovulatory period and the postovulatory period. When the evaluations of the preovulatory period and the postovulatory period were compared, there was %3 increase in the percent weight-bearing of the non-dominant extremity (<i>p</i> = 0.01) and %2.5 decrease in the percent weight-bearing of the dominant limb in the postovulatory period (<i>p</i> = 0.01). %8 increase in functional reach distances was detected in the postovulatory period (p < 0.01). It was determined that there was %7.4 decrease in the oscillation rate of the center of gravity in the static stance with eyes open and %9 decrease in the static stance with eyes closed in the postovulatory period (<i>p</i> = 0.35, <i>p</i> = 0.18, respectively). It has been determined that the balance and postural control of young women are negatively affected in the preovulatory period and the function improved from the preovulatory period to the postovulatory period.</p>","PeriodicalId":50125,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Motor Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"69-77"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9897336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Motor BehaviorPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2023-11-23DOI: 10.1080/00222895.2023.2285383
Oluwaseye Odanye, Emily Steffensen, Erica Hinton, Samuel Bierner, Hao-Yuan Hsiao, Brian Knarr
{"title":"Treadmill Handrail-Use Increases the Anteroposterior Margin of Stability in Individuals' Post-Stroke.","authors":"Oluwaseye Odanye, Emily Steffensen, Erica Hinton, Samuel Bierner, Hao-Yuan Hsiao, Brian Knarr","doi":"10.1080/00222895.2023.2285383","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00222895.2023.2285383","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Treadmills are important rehabilitation tools used with or without handrails. The handrails could be used to attain balance, prevent falls, and improve the walking biomechanics of stroke survivors, but it is yet unclear how the treadmill handrails impact their stability margins. Here, we investigated how 3 treadmill handrail-use conditions (no-hold, self-selected support, and light touch) impact stroke survivors' margins of stability (MoS). The anteroposterior MoS significantly increased for both legs with self-selected support while the mediolateral MoS of the unaffected leg decreased significantly when the participants walked with self-selected support in comparison to no-hold in both cases. We concluded that the contextual use of the handrail should guide its prescription for fall prevention or balance training in rehabilitation programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":50125,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Motor Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"253-262"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10957321/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138296378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Motor Learning and the Interactions Between Working Memory and Practice Schedule.","authors":"Guilherme Menezes Lage, Lucas Eduardo Antunes Bicalho, Sergio Machado, Natália Lelis-Torres, Lidiane Aparecida Fernandes, Tércio Apolinário-Souza","doi":"10.1080/00222895.2024.2374010","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00222895.2024.2374010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The benefits of less repetitive practice schedules on motor learning are usually described in terms of greater demand for memory processes. The present study aimed to investigate the interactions between working memory and practice schedule and their effects on motor learning. Forty female participants had their WMC evaluated by the N-back test and were randomly allocated to either the variable random (VP) or the constant practice (CP) groups. In the acquisition phase, participants practiced 120 trials of a sequential key-pressing task with two goals: learning the relative and the absolute timing. Delayed retention and transfer tests occurred 24 h after the acquisition phase. Participants performed 12 trials of the motor task. Results showed that in the CP, learners with a high level of WMC presented better motor performance in the transfer test than learners with a low level of WMC. In the RP, no difference between WMC levels was found. Learners with a high level of WMC in the CP presented the same motor performance as learners in the RP regardless of the WMC level in the transfer test. In conclusion, learners with a high WMC could compensate for the poor working memory stimulation of a more repetitive practice schedule. The high WMC did not seem to exert an additional benefit when learners were well stimulated by a less repetitive practice schedule.</p>","PeriodicalId":50125,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Motor Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"686-696"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141621620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Motor BehaviorPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2023-07-02DOI: 10.1080/00222895.2023.2229769
Natalia Dounskaia
{"title":"The Strategy of Human Movement Control and Teaching Motor Skills in Norm and Pathology.","authors":"Natalia Dounskaia","doi":"10.1080/00222895.2023.2229769","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00222895.2023.2229769","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The strategy used by the brain to organize human goal-directed movements is still debated. Here, I argue that without the knowledge of this strategy, teaching movement skills required in complex sports activities and for rehabilitation of motor disorders remains an art and can often result in inefficient techniques and misleading instructions. However, the leading joint hypothesis offers a solution to this problem. It suggests that the control strategy consists in rotation of a single ('leading') joint actively and using the biomechanical effect produced by the leading joint as the primary contributor to motion of the other ('trailing') joints. This \"trailing joint control pattern\" was found in a large variety of movement types. This pattern is simple even for seemingly complex movements, it can be easily verbalized, and it requires focusing attention during learning only on one or two movement elements at a time. The use of the trailing joint control strategy therefore allows development of better targeted techniques of motor learning and rehabilitation.</p>","PeriodicalId":50125,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Motor Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"103-107"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9795140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}