Learning of Artificial Sensation Through Long-Term Home Use of a Sensory-Enabled Prosthesis.

ABSTRACT: Upper limb prostheses are specialized tools, and skilled operation is learned by amputees over time. Recently, neural prostheses using implanted peripheral nerve interfaces have enabled advances in artificial somatosensory feedback that can improve prosthesis outcomes. However, the effect of sensory learning on artificial somatosensation has not been studied, despite its known influence on intact somatosensation and analogous neuroprostheses. Sensory learning involves changes in the perception and interpretation of sensory feedback and may further influence functional and psychosocial outcomes. In this mixed methods case study, we examined how passive learning over 115 days of home use of a neural-connected, sensory-enabled prosthetic hand influenced perception of artificial sensory feedba

SUBMITTER: Cuberovic I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6712074 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature