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Using Virtual Reality to Transfer Motor Skill Knowledge from One Hand to Another
Published on: September 18, 2017
Learning the visuomotor transformation of virtual and real sliding levers: simple approximations of complex
Sandra Sülzenbrück1, Herbert Heuer
1IfADo, Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Ardeystrasse 67, 44139 Dortmund, Germany. suelzenbrueck@ifado.de
Abstract:
Learning to operate a complex tool such as a sliding lever can be conceived as learning both a kinematic and a dynamic transformation. We investigated whether the presence of the dynamic transformation has an inhibitory or a facilitative effect on learning to control a sliding lever. Furthermore, we examined the characteristics of the internal model of the kinematic transformation of the lever in visual open-loop trials. In the experiment, one group of participants practiced with only the kinematic transformation of the lever (virtual lever), the other group practiced with both the kinematic and the dynamic transformation (physical lever). Visual feedback was continuously present during practice. Results showed only marginal differences between both groups in open-loop tests. This finding is likely to be related to the fact that in both groups a simplified approximation of the kinematic transformation was acquired, in particular a symmetry approximation. With such an approximation the target for the hand movement is derived from the visual target for the tip of the lever as the position which is symmetric around a sagittal axis.
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