Visuomotor Adaptation of Lower Extremity Movements During Virtual Ball-Kicking Task.

ABSTRACT: Sophisticated soccer players can skillfully manipulate a ball with their feet depending on the external environment. This ability of goal-directed control in the lower limbs has not been fully elucidated, although upper limb movements have been studied extensively using motor adaptation tasks. The purpose of this study was to clarify how the goal-directed movements of the lower limbs is acquired by conducting an experiment of visuomotor adaptation in ball-kicking movements. In this study, healthy young participants with and without experience playing soccer or futsal performed ball-kicking movements. They were instructed to move a cursor representing the right foot position and shoot a virtual ball to a target on a display in front of them. During the learning trials, the trajectories of t

SUBMITTER: Moriyama M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9259925 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature