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Darrin O Wijeyaratnam¹, Romeo Chua², Erin K Cressman¹

¹School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

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|June 14, 2021

Summary

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Movement control adapts to time constraints. Faster movement times (MT) reduce online error correction, while slower MTs allow for more online adjustments in newly learned movements.

Keywords:

learning movement control movement time reaching temporal constraints visuomotor adaptation

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Area of Science:

Motor control
Human movement science
Neuroscience

Background:

Goal-directed movements are adjusted by both past errors (offline control) and real-time errors (online control).
For well-learned movements, faster movement times (MT) increase reliance on offline control processes.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if movement control processes for newly acquired movements also adapt to varying MT constraints.
To determine how temporal demands influence online and offline control in novel motor learning.

Main Methods:

Sixteen participants learned to adapt to a visuomotor distortion.
Participants performed reaching movements under both Long (800-1000 ms) and Short (400-500 ms) MT conditions after training.

Main Results:

Movement errors during reaching with a rotated cursor were significantly reduced online under the Long MT condition compared to the Short MT condition.
This suggests that online error correction is more effective with longer movement times.

Conclusions:

The engagement of offline and online movement control processes in newly acquired movements is flexible.
Temporal demands, specifically movement time, can modulate the balance between online and offline control strategies during motor learning.