Questions tagged [motor]
For questions surrounding movement such as stair walking, dynamic touch, time-to-contact (Tau) estimation, the motor cortex, end-effectors (muscles, glands, etc.), and motor deficits in humans and animals.
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What are the scientific basics (if any) of "BioDanza"?
Defined in the 1960s by a psychologist in Chile, Biodanza is a self-development movement now found in 54 countries, in South America, North America, Australia and Eurasia. It is mostly based on music, ...
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Would it be worthwhile/has anyone tried to produce a machine that measured intoxication by pupil dilation while doing arithmetic?
Recently many states have legalized cannabis. While alcohol intoxication is easy to measure, intoxication by cannabis is not. Cannabis can stay in the blood for several months, whereas the ...
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Why do we feel inclined to doodle on paper when talking over the phone but not when talking in person?
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Revisiting an earlier theme about "mind complementary activities", as I would call them, it dawned on me that the classical example of how doodling on paper complements talking ...
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Does the brain have code? [duplicate]
I am not sure if the brain is totally analogous to a computer but it certainly behaves like one in some respects. It seems to take input information from the environment, process that signal, store ...
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Motor skill: Let speed come naturally?
I've commonly heard that when practising a motor skill, one should start slow with correct form and one shouldn't force speed. Rather, let speed come naturally. I believe this but I can't find a ...
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Is there a term in psychology for when a tool is perceived as an extension of your body?
Is there a specific term that describes the phenomenon where you perceive a tool as an extension of your own body?
An example of this would be when a skilled artist or tradesman has so mastered their ...
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Can signals from the prefrontal cortex alone trigger a readiness potential in the pre-supplementary motor area?
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In Haggard, Patrick. "Human volition: towards a neuroscience of will." Nature Reviews Neuroscience 9.12 (2008): 934., the author states in the caption of Figure 1 (pg. 4):
The ...
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Why is median motor nerve conduction velocity about 50 m/s?
I recently started reading Fitzgerald's clinical neuroanatomy and neuroscience (Mtui, et al. 2015) and reached chapter 12, electrodiagnostic examination, yesterday. The chapter deals, i.a., with nerve ...
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Reference request: Parkinson's disease book [closed]
I am about start a project on computational modelling of basal ganglia in the context of motor problems in Parkinson's disease. My background is mostly on computational side (and some neuroscience too)...
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How does modulation of the activity of an afferent neuron lead to increase in MEP's?
I was confused reading this:
Another example has been described with the primary motor cortex,
where the afferent axonal synaptic input (Figure 1) can be facilitated
by anodal tDCS (Rahman et ...
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Recording motor-evoked potentials (MEPs) in response to transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)?
The amplitudes of motor-evoked potentials (MEPs) are often recorded as a measure of (change in) cortical excitability, after administering some form of non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS). In a ...
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Are facial muscles activated in verbal thought? [duplicate]
In this video, Dr Russel Barkley states the following:
I can put electrodes all over your face and I can ask you to cite your
Canadian pledge of allegiance in your mind. You still move your face.
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Research showing short-term memory interferes with motor planning
Has research shown that keeping information in short-term memory, like two words or two numbers, make planning and completing a physical task more difficult?
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Resources for learning how best to learn fine motor skills
I am interested in learning how best to learn a fine motor skill, in this case, playing a musical instrument. Presumably there are more or less effective ways to go about it.
Possible factors that I ...
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Do central pattern generators control musical performance?
Are the sometimes very fast and complicated rhythmic movements and often long lasting patterns a musician performs while playing a piece of music generated by central pattern generators (in the sense ...
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Latency between actual neurons firing and muscles response in open and close fist experiment
I'm trying to analyze the electrocorticograms (ECoG) of opening and closing the fist. I have the data of a glove to capture when the hand moves. I'm struggling with finding the best epoch or segment ...
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How to specify the quickest movement a human can do based on MTM standards?
I am looking for a benchmark as a reference regarding the human Kinesiology that specifies the quickest movement a human can do on basic everyday movements like computer mouse clicking. As far as I ...
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"Raise your game" studies
Let's say I play a game or sport against somebody stronger than me. I might plausibly feel a need to raise my game. Are there any empirical academic studies which test whether such a phenomenon exists?...
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What is inter-rater agreement for Laban Movement Analysis?
Annotation of datasets, such as those used in action [1] and emotion recognition [2], using Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) is usually done by Certified Laban Movement Analyst (CLMA). How much consensus ...
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Alternatives to Laban Movement Analysis
Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) is an approach for describing movements using four main descriptors:
Body: which body parts move
Space: how much space is being taken up by the movement
Effort: the ...
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Can you practice and improve physical activities only by thinking?
By physical activities I mean any kind of task, work, sport, you have to use your body.
Not always have the time to do some task or even the possibility (need some equipment, not great situation). I ...
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Scientific way to prove you are ambidextrous, right handed or left handed?
I grew up in a country where my grandmother's generation used to believe that left handed were related with the Devil, so I know many friends that have been "corrected" when kids and now they are ...
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Can you learn a skill by observing someone else?
For instance, does watching an artist draw improve your drawing skill, even if you're not drawing along with them?
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Does increased motor development always occur at the expense of speech development, or vice versa?
It is often said that infants / toddlers* develop in a focused manner. I am specifically interested in the notion that a quick development of speech occurs at the expense of motor skill development ...
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What models/mechanisms exist for the brain to chain movements together?
Motor Sequence Learning is the study of the cognitive ability to chain various motor sequences together. The most intuitive example of this is learning to play a sequence of notes on a piano. ...
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Effect of variability due during motor skill training
When training fine motor skills, are identically setup practice sessions ideal or, like machine learning, does adding noise/variability to the practice session increase skill acquisition?
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How do the motor system and Central Pattern Generators interact?
Central Pattern Generators are populations of neurons found in the spinal chord that assist in the creation of rhythmic movements. See "Human spinal locomotor control is based on flexibly organized ...
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How are movements stored in the brain?
The high level flow of information through the brain for the purpose of motor control is well established. It is also known the cerebellum stores many different movements, while also participating in ...
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Where is motor skill function located within the brain?
Does the neural activity that correlates with motor skill function tend to be focused near or far from the outer surface of the brain, or both? And what about perception?
My deeper curiosity being: I'...
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Able to type promptly, but doubt validity when spelling it out?
I was unable to frame a search query for my question, hence decided to post it out here.
I am normally able to type passwords, numbers and other tiny bits of text very fast. However if I have to ...
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How exactly do "you" think and interact with your body?
It has been established that our brains control many processes that your body carries out autonomously and involuntarily. However, other actions are controlled by you. (e.g. you lift an arm, you walk)....
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Can humans keep track of two unrelated rhythms?
Let's do an experiment. With your left hand start tapping out a regular (evenly-spaced) beat - say, 2 beats per second. With your right hand attempt to tap our a different regular beat, but tap at a ...
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What is the effect of listening to music on walking?
How does music affect walking speed and attitude? What will be the effects of different pitch and tempo of music on a person's walking behavior?
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Contemporary Resources on Cognitive Science of Typing
[Apologies if this is too general.]
I'm doing research on language production during the computer keyboard typing process. There are some great classic articles like Rumelhart & Norman, 1982 and ...
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Handwriting analysis by profession (muscular control) - Athletes, musicians, etc
Is there any scientific study on handwriting by profession? In the whole world, the people with the most control of their muscles are athletes. Or pianists, who have extremely good control of their ...
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What explains involuntary imitation of behavior such as shrugging?
Recently, I watched a discussion program on TV and one of the participants shrugged. I found that, not only did I do the same, but I seemed to do it in synchrony the speaker. I didn't want to do this, ...
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Do subjects with a missing cerebellum have a superior ability to verbalize motion sequences?
Since the function of the cerebellum in patients with cerebellar hypoplasia needs to be taken over by other brain components such as the motor cortex, and since the cortex is the source of language, ...
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Is it possible to master two different typing keyboard layouts?
I am a good typist with qwerty keyboard, I came across other keyboard layouts (eg: Dvorak keyboard). I believe I will never be able to master these two typing layouts simultaneously.
Am I right? or ...
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Trying to understand equations in Karl Friston article
I am trying to understand a neuroscience article by Karl Friston. In it he gives three equations that are, as I understand him, equivalent or inter-convertible and refer to both physical and Shannon ...
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How is averaging used in calculating the Bereitschaftspotential?
I have a question about the averaging involved in the Bereitschaftspotential. On the wiki page you can read that, because it is so small, the Bereitschaftspotential only becomes apparent after ...
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How does the body experience free-fall during a hypnic jerk
Today I learned that a sudden jerk that you sometimes experience when you are just about to fall asleep due to a sense of free-fall or weightlessness is
called a hypnic jerk.
If, while sleeping, I ...
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What causes a muscle to be unsteady?
I have noticed for myself that sometimes, certain muscles may become unsteady. Here are three examples:
Sometimes it is more difficult to hold my hand still in the air.
Another example is how my ...
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Can we enter data at the speed of thought?
I have the subjective personal experience that the speed at which I can enter information in a computer through a keyboard is so slow and my thoughts "run" so fast, that I find it an especially ...
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Why does staring at a single point make it easier to balance on one leg?
If I'm trying to put a shoe on while standing with one leg, it's easier to maintain balance while staring at a single point (e.g., on the ground).
Why does staring at a single point make it easier to ...
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Why do people walk in a circle when they are blindfolded and intend to walk in a straight line?
Why does someone with eyes tied follow a circular path if left to walk in a huge yard(kilometers), that occurs even if he thinks that he is walking in a straight line?
In my opinion once you drawn a ...
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Does anger increase your body strength?
Will anger increase your body strength or not? If you get angry, you may think that i can break anything or fight anyone but sometimes you almost lose control on your body completely (or probably ...
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Does distraction cause us to skip to the next step in a motor plan?
Often, if one is concentrating too hard on a particular task, it seems as though it's quite easy to skip to the next step of a plan of action. For example, a baseball infielder may attempt a throw to ...
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Does fluency on a psychomotor task result from practice and a focus on accuracy?
I know this formula, and I don't know where did I read it (or maybe heard about):
Conscious accuracy + continuous practice = spontaneous fluency
It's an educational technique for long-term ...
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The genetics of handedness
In response to these questions:
Are there benefits to learning to write with your non-dominant hand?
Spontaneous change of handedness
I used myself as an example for spontaneous handedness change.
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Are there benefits to learning to write with your non-dominant hand?
There are some articles on the web that recommend learning to write with your non-dominant hand to get in touch with your inner child or a higher power, increase your creativity and be more open-...
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