Does sonification of action simulation training impact corticospinal excitability and audiomotor plasticity?

ABSTRACT: Sonification is a sensory augmentation strategy whereby a sound is associated with, and modulated by, movement. Evidence suggests that sonification could be a viable strategy to maximize learning and rehabilitation. Recent studies investigated sonification of action observation, reporting beneficial effects, especially in Parkinson's disease. However, research on simulation training-a training regime based on action observation and motor imagery, in which actions are internally simulated, without physical execution-suggest that action observation alone is suboptimal, compared to the combined use of action observation and motor imagery. In this study, we explored the effects of sonified action observation and motor imagery on corticospinal excitability, as well as to evaluate the extent of

SUBMITTER: Castro F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8144125 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature