Narrowing the coordination solution space during motor learning standardizes individual patterns of search strategy but diversifies learning rates.

ABSTRACT: Constraints on practice can benefit motor learning by guiding the learner towards efficient coordination patterns, but can also narrow the potential solution space of coordination and control. The aim of this paper was to investigate whether narrowing the solution space through more restrictive task constraints limits the expression of potential exploratory behaviours during the learning process, identified using Drifting Markov Models. In a breaststroke swimming task, the change in interlimb coordination of 7 learners practicing for 16 lessons over 2 months was analysed to quantify motor exploration and identify periods of metastable regimes of coordination. Results showed that the observed exploratory dynamics were highly individual both in terms of range of exploration and in the patter

SUBMITTER: Komar J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9898268 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature