TY - GEN
T1 - Motor learning by attentive observation
AU - Kondo, Toshiyuki
AU - Nakamura, Kazuto
AU - Nozawa, Takayuki
PY - 2010/12/1
Y1 - 2010/12/1
N2 - We experimentally examined the effect of observation and motivation on human motor learning. In this study, an arm reaching movement under a viscous curl force field was adopted as learning task. The subjects in Observation group were asked to just look at an expert's movement before starting the learning session. In addition, the subjects in Motivation group were provided with the information that they have to tackle the same task after the observation. Experimental results demonstrated that the subjects with the observation outperformed the subjects without observation (i.e. control group). Moreover, the subjects with the motivated observation showed rapid performance improvement compared with those of not-motivated observation. These results suggest that attentive observation have a positive effect on the early stage of human motor learning.
AB - We experimentally examined the effect of observation and motivation on human motor learning. In this study, an arm reaching movement under a viscous curl force field was adopted as learning task. The subjects in Observation group were asked to just look at an expert's movement before starting the learning session. In addition, the subjects in Motivation group were provided with the information that they have to tackle the same task after the observation. Experimental results demonstrated that the subjects with the observation outperformed the subjects without observation (i.e. control group). Moreover, the subjects with the motivated observation showed rapid performance improvement compared with those of not-motivated observation. These results suggest that attentive observation have a positive effect on the early stage of human motor learning.
KW - Attention
KW - Learning by observing
KW - Viscous curl force field
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84871421181
SN - 9781617389849
T3 - 4th International Symposium on Measurement, Analysis and Modelling of Human Functions 2010, ISHF 2010
SP - 52
EP - 57
BT - 4th International Symposium on Measurement, Analysis and Modelling of Human Functions 2010, ISHF 2010
T2 - 4th International Symposium on Measurement, Analysis and Modelling of Human Functions 2010, ISHF 2010
Y2 - 14 June 2010 through 16 June 2010
ER -