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Is there a term in psychology for when a tool is perceived as an extension of your body?
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Possible interesting terms are:
distal attribution (externalization)
body transfer illusion (rubber hand illusion)
embodiment
Background
This is a very interesting, yet difficult ...
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Can you practice and improve physical activities only by thinking?
Yes. In one famous experiment,a college basketball team was divided into three groups.
Group 1 was supposed to show up to practice shooting baskets for a week on a daily basis.
Group 2 was asked to "...
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Can you practice and improve physical activities only by thinking?
My general understanding is that thinking about executing the motor tasks in your mind can improve skill. It's not as good as actually practicing the task. I'm not sure exactly how conclusive the ...
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How do the motor system and Central Pattern Generators interact?
Descending inputs onto the central pattern generating circuit provide stimulus in the form of neuromodulatory chemicals and synaptic currents (Marder 2012). The leech heartbeat pacemaker and the ...
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Would it be worthwhile/has anyone tried to produce a machine that measured intoxication by pupil dilation while doing arithmetic?
This has been studied.
Via https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0379073820304217 :
Cannabis users show consistently weakened responses in pupillary light reflex tests.
The method is ...
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Resources for learning how best to learn fine motor skills
I think the search term you're looking for is 'skill acquisition', but it's a super broad area. There's relevant stuff in memory, second language acquisition, sports science, and teaching surgeons ...
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How to specify the quickest movement a human can do based on MTM standards?
I don't know about any MTM standards or benchmarks, but motor response latencies have been assessed in many studies. Importantly, auditory response latencies are smallest, then tactile followed by ...
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Does distraction cause us to skip to the next step in a motor plan?
Q: Does distraction cause us to skip to the next step in a motor plan?
A: It depends on the processes in progress, characteristics of the subject and characteristics of the signal to produce ...
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"Raise your game" studies
According to Tenenbaum et al. (1995) the effect may be opposite. In their study, they had people, who where normally not engaged in a training program for strength, tested on their knee-extensor ...
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Recording motor-evoked potentials (MEPs) in response to transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)?
Compared to TMS which is usually brief and high-intensity, tDCS stimulation protocols are fairly weak and long-duration. This protocol doesn't elicit MEPs by itself, because you need a stronger ...
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Can signals from the prefrontal cortex alone trigger a readiness potential in the pre-supplementary motor area?
The original author is not making a claim one way or another for logical AND or logical OR within this context. The statement
the pre-supplementary motor area (preSMA), which in turn receives ...
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How does modulation of the activity of an afferent neuron lead to increase in MEP's?
The passage you reference is talking about connections within the motor cortex in the brain. Afferent/efferent can be confusing terminology in the brain.
In the periphery, the terms have clear ...
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Latency between actual neurons firing and muscles response in open and close fist experiment
Short answer
Reported motor delays between brain activity and motor response are in the order of 6 - 9 ms.
Background
I found a study where the authors used deep brain stimulation electrodes ...
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