Learning redundant motor tasks with and without overlapping dimensions: Facilitation and interference effects

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 8289-8299

  Ranganathan, Rajiv ^a,b   Wieser, Jon ^c   Mosier, Kristine M ^d   Mussa Ivaldi, Ferdinando A ^a,b,e   Scheidt, Robert A ^a,b,c  

^a REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Medical College of Wisconsin and Marquette University   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body machine interface; Coordination; Finger; Structure learning; Synergies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CALIBRATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISPERSION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; YOUNG ADULT;

BODY-MACHINE INTERFACE; COORDINATION; FINGER; STRUCTURE LEARNING; SYNERGIES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; SPACE PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902139381     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4455-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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