The Proactive Synergy Between Action Observation and Execution in the Acquisition of New Motor Skills.

ABSTRACT: Motor learning can be defined as a process that leads to relatively permanent changes in motor behavior through repeated interactions with the environment. Different strategies can be adopted to achieve motor learning: movements can be overtly practiced leading to an amelioration of motor performance; alternatively, covert strategies (e.g., action observation) can promote neuroplastic changes in the motor system even in the absence of real movement execution. However, whether a training regularly alternating action observation and execution (i.e., Action Observation Training, AOT) may surpass the pure motor practice (MP) and observational learning (OL) remains to be established. To address this issue, we enrolled 54 subjects requiring them to learn tying nautical knots via one out of three

SUBMITTER: Bazzini MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8986982 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature