Motor skill learning by increasing the movement planning horizon
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| author | Bashford, Luke Kobak, Dmitry Mehring, Carsten |
| author_facet | Bashford, Luke Kobak, Dmitry Mehring, Carsten |
| contents | We investigated motor skill learning using a path tracking task, where human subjects had to track various curved paths as fast as possible, in the absence of any external perturbations. Subjects became better with practice, producing faster and smoother movements even when tracking novel untrained paths. Using a "searchlight" paradigm, where only a short segment of the path ahead of the cursor was shown, we found that subjects with a higher tracking skill took a longer chunk of the future path into account when computing the control policy for the upcoming movement segment. We observed the same effects in a second experiment where tracking speed was fixed and subjects were practicing to increase their accuracy. These findings demonstrate that human subjects increase their planning horizon when acquiring a motor skill. |
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| spellingShingle | Motor skill learning by increasing the movement planning horizon Bashford, Luke Kobak, Dmitry Mehring, Carsten Neurons and Cognition We investigated motor skill learning using a path tracking task, where human subjects had to track various curved paths as fast as possible, in the absence of any external perturbations. Subjects became better with practice, producing faster and smoother movements even when tracking novel untrained paths. Using a "searchlight" paradigm, where only a short segment of the path ahead of the cursor was shown, we found that subjects with a higher tracking skill took a longer chunk of the future path into account when computing the control policy for the upcoming movement segment. We observed the same effects in a second experiment where tracking speed was fixed and subjects were practicing to increase their accuracy. These findings demonstrate that human subjects increase their planning horizon when acquiring a motor skill. |
| title | Motor skill learning by increasing the movement planning horizon |
| topic | Neurons and Cognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.6049 |