Fundamental research for training of perceptual skills (I): Can the motor skill learning really contribute to the improvement of perceptual skills?

• Project/Area Number: 23500674
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Physical education
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
• Principal Investigator: TANAKA Hideyuki 東京農工大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 准教授 (70231412)
• Project Period (FY): 2011 – 2013
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2013)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
• Keywords: 知覚 / 運動制御 / 運動学習 / 認知系脳科学 / 動作解析 / 運動スキル / 行為結果予測 / 投球動作 / 協調構造 / ボール反力 / パントマイム / 知覚スキル / 動作制御変数 / 知覚トレーニング / 行為予測

Research Abstract

The research aimed to investigate whether motor skill practices could improve perceptual skills. We performed three ball-throwing experiments. In Experiment 1, subjects practiced throwing a ball into a target using a shooting tool for two months. In Experiments 2 & 3, subjects threw a ball vertically to different targets and catch it while sitting in a chair. The subjects performed this motor, partially mental, task in three different modes: actual execution, pantomime, and imagination without swing actions. For the subject who experienced baseball the motor practice could improve the accuracy of perceptual judgments regarding back-forces acting on the hand at the ball release. Pantomime throwing reproduced the motor patterns observed during actual throwing and significantly reduced the variability of mental simulation of ball flights compared to the imagination mode. We hypothesized that simulated motor execution can play an important role in estimating a consequence of motor actions.

Research Products

• [Presentation] 動作の協調構造に着目した知覚運動制御研究の試み (2014)
  • Author(s): 田中秀幸
  • Organizer: 2013年度「運動・動作・行為の研究会」
  • Place of Presentation: 仙台
  • Year and Date: 2014-02-28
• [Presentation] 動作の協調構造に着目した知覚運動制御研究の試み (2014)
  • Author(s): 田中秀幸
  • Organizer: 2013年度 運動・動作・行為の研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 仙台，宮城
• [Presentation] The pantomime paradigm reproduces the motor patterns observed during the actual execution of a throw-and-catch motor task (2013)
  • Author(s): Tanaka H, Iwami M, and Mizuno W
  • Organizer: 11th Motor Control and Human Skill Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Melbourne, Australia
  • Year and Date: 2013-11-29
• [Presentation] The pantomime paradigm reproduces the motor patterns observed during the actual execution of a throw-and-catch motor task. (2013)
  • Author(s): Tanaka H, Iwami M, and Mizuno W
  • Organizer: 11th Motor Control and Human Skill Conference.
  • Place of Presentation: Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia
• [Presentation] The pantomime paradigm reproduces the motor patterns observed during the actual execution of a throw-and-catch motor task. (2013)
  • Author(s): Tanaka H, Iwami M, and Mizuno W
  • Organizer: 11th Motor Control and Human Skill Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia
• [Remarks] 東京農工大学先端健康科学部門身体運動科学研究室 研究室紹介
  • URL: http://www.tuat.ac.jp/~fitness/laboratory.html