Research Project
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Patients with motor paresis after stroke have often impaired in the ability to release the muscle contraction appropriately. And then this causes the muscles controlling parleyed limb to get co-contracted gradually while the patients move the parlayed limb voluntarily. Imitation learning is one of the effective motor learning strategy where a learner get information that should be learned from observing the movements performed by another person. Here I applied this imitation movement to the impairment in release muscle contraction. Compared with the voluntary movements, the imitation movement had got less co-contracted while the subjects repeated in performing finger extension-flexion movement.
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All Journal Article (1 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 1 results) Presentation (4 results) Remarks (1 results)
Neuroreport. 20(16)
Pages: 1477-1480
