Sensory integration in the learning of aiming toward "self-defined" targets
Category
Journal Article
Authors
Robin, C., Toussaint, L., Blandin, Y., Vinter, A.
Year
2004
Title
Sensory integration in the learning of aiming toward "self-defined" targets
Journal / book / conference
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport
Abstract
This study aimed at supporting the specificity of learning hypothesis, when aiming was based on internal cues, as directing the hand toward a "self-defined" target location. Participants practiced modest (20 trials) or intensive (720 trials) training with visual and proprioceptive information or proprioceptive information only. Pretests and postlests were performed in sensory conditions that did or did not match the training condition. Results showed that dynamic visual cues played a dominant role at the beginning of the task, and an intensive practice resulted in increased accuracy of kinesthetic information and efferent mechanisms of motor responses. These results have implications with regard to motor learning conceptions and training as a function of the task constraints.
Issue
4
Volume
75
Pages
381-387