2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Analysis on Brain Process of Anticipatory Motor Adaptation with Periodicity of Motion
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21700593
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Physical education
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| Research Institution | Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
KONDO Toshiyuki Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 大学院・工学研究院, 准教授 (60323820)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2010
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| Keywords | 身体システム学 / 運動学習 |
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| Research Abstract |
Acquiring motor skills for playing unfamiliar musical instruments and/or sports can be formulated as motor learning of a novel sensorimotor coordination. In this study, we focused on the method how we can obtain the sensorimotor mapping efficiently. Concretely, we investigated the effect of motor segmentation, i.e. rhythmic and/or discrete movement on motor learning of visuomotor rotation task. Conventional studies suggested that brain activity between rhythmic and discrete movements would be different. According to this, we hypothesized that the difference should have an effect on the acquired sensorimotor coordination and its generalization ability. As a result, the subject trained with rhythmic movement showed high generalization ability, whereas subject with discrete learning did not. This suggested that the effect of rhythmic movement is significant on motor learning of visuomotor learning.
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