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Explicit feedback and instruction do not change shoulder muscle activity reduction after shoulder fixation

View ORCID ProfileRodrigo S. Maeda, Julia M. Zdybal, View ORCID ProfilePaul L. Gribble, View ORCID ProfileJ. Andrew Pruszynski
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.25.008466
Rodrigo S. Maeda
1Brain and Mind Institute, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
2Robarts Research Institute, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
3Dept. of Psychology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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Julia M. Zdybal
1Brain and Mind Institute, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
2Robarts Research Institute, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
4Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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Paul L. Gribble
1Brain and Mind Institute, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
3Dept. of Psychology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
4Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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J. Andrew Pruszynski
1Brain and Mind Institute, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
2Robarts Research Institute, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
3Dept. of Psychology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
4Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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Abstract

Generating pure elbow rotation requires contracting muscles at both the shoulder and elbow joints to counter torques that arise at the shoulder when the forearm rotates (i.e., intersegmental dynamics). Previous work has shown that human participants learn to reduce their shoulder muscle activity if the same elbow movement is performed after the shoulder joint is mechanically locked, which is appropriate because locking the shoulder joint eliminates the torques that arise at the shoulder when the forearm rotates. However, this learning is slow (i.e., it unfolds over hundreds of trials) and incomplete (i.e., shoulder activity is not fully eliminated). Here we investigated whether and how the addition of explicit strategies and biofeedback modulate this type of learning. Three groups of human participants (N = 55) performed voluntary pure elbow rotations using a robotic exoskeleton that permits shoulder and elbow rotation in a horizontal plane. Participants did the task with the shoulder free to move (baseline), then with the shoulder joint locked by the robotic manipulandum (adaptation), and then with the shoulder free to move again (post-adaptation). The first group of participants performed this protocol and received no instructions about what to do after their shoulder was locked. The second group of participants received visual feedback about their shoulder muscle activity after each movement and was instructed to reduce their shoulder activity to zero. The third group of participants also received visual biofeedback, but it was removed part way through the experiment. We found that, although all groups learned, the rate and magnitude of learning was not reliably different across the groups. Taken together, our results suggest that learning new arm dynamics, unlike other motor learning paradigms, unfolds independent of explicit instructions, biofeedback and task instructions.

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  • Grants: This work was supported by a grant from the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC Discovery Grant to J.A.P.). R.S.M. received a salary award from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq/Brazil). J.M.Z. received an Undergraduate Student Research Award from the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada. J.A.P. received a salary award from the Canada Research Chairs program.

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Explicit feedback and instruction do not change shoulder muscle activity reduction after shoulder fixation
Rodrigo S. Maeda, Julia M. Zdybal, Paul L. Gribble, J. Andrew Pruszynski
bioRxiv 2020.03.25.008466; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.25.008466
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Explicit feedback and instruction do not change shoulder muscle activity reduction after shoulder fixation
Rodrigo S. Maeda, Julia M. Zdybal, Paul L. Gribble, J. Andrew Pruszynski
bioRxiv 2020.03.25.008466; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.25.008466

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