Examining modifications of execution strategies during a continuous task.

ABSTRACT: How strategies are formulated during a performance is an important aspect of motor control. Knowledge of the strategy employed in a task may help subjects achieve better performances, as it would help to evidence other possible strategies that could be used as well as help perfect a certain strategy. We sought to investigate how much of a performance is conditioned by the initial state and whether behavior throughout the performance is modified within a short timescale. In other words, we focus on the process of execution and not on the outcome. To this scope we used a repeated continuous circle tracing task. Performances were decomposed into different components (i.e., execution variables) whose combination is able to numerically determine movement outcome. By identifying execution variab

SUBMITTER: Cohen EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7921105 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature