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Influence of visual feedback persistence on visuo-motor skill improvement

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Unell, Alyssa; Eisenstat, Zachary M; Braun, Ainsley; Gandhi, Abhinav; Gilad-Gutnick, Sharon; Ben-Ami, Shlomit; Sinha, Pawan; ... Show more Show less
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Abstract
Towards the larger goal of understanding factors relevant for improving visuo-motor control, we investigated the role of visual feedback for modulating the effectiveness of a simple hand-eye training protocol. The regimen comprised a series of curve tracing tasks undertaken over a period of one week by neurologically healthy individuals with their non-dominant hands. Our three subject groups differed in the training they experienced: those who received ‘Persistent’ visual-feedback by seeing their hand and trace evolve in real-time superimposed upon the reference patterns, those who received ‘Non-Persistent’ visual-feedback seeing their hand movement but not the emerging trace, and a ‘Control’ group that underwent no training. Improvements in performance were evaluated along two dimensions—accuracy and steadiness, to assess visuo-motor and motor skills, respectively. We found that persistent feedback leads to a significantly greater improvement in accuracy than non-persistent feedback. Steadiness, on the other hand, benefits from training irrespective of the persistence of feedback. Our results not only demonstrate the feasibility of rapid visuo-motor learning in adulthood, but more specifically, the influence of visual veridicality and a critical role for dynamically emergent visual information.
Date issued
2021-12
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/138329
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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Scientific Reports
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Unell, Alyssa, Eisenstat, Zachary M, Braun, Ainsley, Gandhi, Abhinav, Gilad-Gutnick, Sharon et al. 2021. "Influence of visual feedback persistence on visuo-motor skill improvement." Scientific Reports, 11 (1).
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