Providing Task Instructions During Motor Training Enhances Performance and Modulates Attentional Brain Networks.

ABSTRACT: Learning a new motor task is a complex cognitive and motor process. Especially early during motor learning, cognitive functions such as attentional engagement, are essential, e.g., to discover relevant visual stimuli. Drawing participant's attention towards task-relevant stimuli-e.g., with task instructions using visual cues or explicit written information-is a common practice to support cognitive engagement during training and, hence, accelerate motor learning. However, there is little scientific evidence about how visually cued or written task instructions affect attentional brain networks during motor learning. In this experiment, we trained 36 healthy participants in a virtual motor task: surfing waves by steering a boat with a joystick. We measured the participants' motor performance

SUBMITTER: Penalver-Andres J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8695982 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature