Snapp-Childs, W, Casserly, E, Mon-Williams, M orcid.org/0000-0001-7595-8545 et al. (1 more author) (2013) Active Prospective Control Is Required for Effective Sensorimotor Learning. PLoS ONE, 8 (10). e77609. ISSN 1932-6203
Abstract
Passive modeling of movements is often used in movement therapy to overcome disabilities caused by stroke or other disorders (e.g. Developmental Coordination Disorder or Cerebral Palsy). Either a therapist or, recently, a specially designed robot moves or guides the limb passively through the movement to be trained. In contrast, action theory has long suggested that effective skill acquisition requires movements to be actively generated. Is this true? In view of the former, we explicitly tested the latter. Previously, a method was developed that allows children with Developmental Coordination Disorder to produce effective movements actively, so as to improve manual performance to match that of typically developing children. In the current study, we tested practice using such active movements as compared to practice using passive movement. The passive movement employed, namely haptic tracking, provided a strong test of the comparison, one that showed that the mere inaction of the muscles is not the problem. Instead, lack of prospective control was. The result was no effective learning with passive movement while active practice with prospective control yielded significant improvements in performance.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2013, Snapp-Childs et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Psychology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 14 Jul 2016 11:33 |
Last Modified: | 14 Jul 2016 11:33 |
Published Version: | http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0077609 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Public Library of Science |
Identification Number: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0077609 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:100959 |