Biomimetic versus arbitrary motor control strategies for bionic hand skill learning.

ABSTRACT: A long-standing engineering ambition has been to design anthropomorphic bionic limbs: devices that look like and are controlled in the same way as the biological body (biomimetic). The untested assumption is that biomimetic motor control enhances device embodiment, learning, generalization and automaticity. To test this, we compared biomimetic and non-biomimetic control strategies for non-disabled participants when learning to control a wearable myoelectric bionic hand operated by an eight-channel electromyography pattern-recognition system. We compared motor learning across days and behavioural tasks for two training groups: biomimetic (mimicking the desired bionic hand gesture with biological hand) and arbitrary control (mapping an unrelated biological hand gesture with the desired bioni

SUBMITTER: Schone HR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11199138 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature