A unified model of unimanual and bimanual movements - theory, validation, and application

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K16122
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Soft computing
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
• Principal Investigator: Takiyama Ken 東京農工大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 特任准教授 (40725933)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 身体運動学習 / 運動プリミティブ / 片腕運動 / 両腕運動 / 神経回路網モデル

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In our daily life, we manipulate our smartphones unimanually and tablet devices bimanually. Although unimanual and bimanual movements are familiar, the relation between those movements remains unclear. We investigated the relation based on computational modeling and behavioral experiments (in particular, motor adaptation experiments). Based on mathematical conditions to explain some previous behavioral results, it was possible to propose a novel mathematical model to explain the relation between unimanual and bimanual movements. We further validated the model based on behavioral experiments and the implementation of the model in a biologically plausible neural network model.

Free Research Field

身体運動制御・身体運動学習