Random Practice Enhances Retention and Spatial Transfer in Force Field Adaptation

Autor: Michael, Herzog, Anne, Focke, Philipp, Maurus, Benjamin, Thürer, Thorsten, Stein
Rok vydání: 2021
Zdroj: Frontiers in human neuroscience. 16
ISSN: 1662-5161
Popis: The contextual-interference effect is a frequently examined phenomenon in motor skill learning but has not been extensively investigated in motor adaptation. Here, we first tested experimentally if the contextual-interference effect is detectable in force field adaptation regarding retention and spatial transfer, and then fitted state-space models to the data to relate the findings to the "forgetting-and-reconstruction hypothesis". Thirty-two participants were divided into two groups with either a random or a blocked practice schedule. They practiced reaching to four targets and were tested 10 min and 24 h afterward for motor retention and spatial transfer on an interpolation and an extrapolation target, and on targets which were shifted 10 cm away. The adaptation progress was participant-specifically fitted with 4-slow-1-fast state-space models accounting for generalization and set breaks. The blocked group adapted faster (
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