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Visuomotor Adaptation of Lower Extremity Movements During Virtual Ball-Kicking Task.

Mai Moriyama¹, Motoki Kouzaki^1,2, Shota Hagio^1,2

¹Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

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Summary

This study shows that the brain adapts lower limb movements for goal-directed tasks like kicking, similar to upper limb adaptation. This visuomotor adaptation occurs even without prior soccer experience.

Keywords:

goal-directed movement lower limb movement motor learning virtual reality visuomotor rotation

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Area of Science:

Motor control research
Neuroscience of movement
Biomechanics of sports

Background:

Goal-directed lower limb control is crucial for sports like soccer but less understood than upper limb control.
Motor adaptation tasks have extensively studied upper limb movements.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the acquisition of goal-directed lower limb movements through visuomotor adaptation.
To clarify how the brain learns and adjusts kicking movements in response to visual feedback.

Main Methods:

Healthy participants performed virtual ball-kicking tasks with visual feedback.
A 15° rotation perturbation was applied to the visual feedback of ball trajectories.
Participants' lower limb movements and kicking trajectories were analyzed.

Main Results:

Participants successfully adapted their lower limb movements to the visuomotor perturbation.
Adaptation affected entire movement trajectories, not just the final kicking point.
Soccer playing experience did not significantly alter the adaptation ability.

Conclusions:

Goal-directed lower limb movements are adaptable to novel sensory environments.
The fundamental mechanisms of visuomotor adaptation appear consistent between upper and lower limb movements.