Analysis on Brain Process of Anticipatory Motor Adaptation with Periodicity of Motion

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Acquiring motor skills for playing unfamiliar musical instruments and/or sports can be formulated as motor learning of a novel sensorimotor coordination. In this study, we focused on the method how we can obtain the sensorimotor mapping efficiently. Concretely, we investigated the effect of motor segmentation, i.e. rhythmic and/or discrete movement on motor learning of visuomotor rotation task. Conventional studies suggested that brain activity between rhythmic and discrete movements would be different. According to this, we hypothesized that the difference should have an effect on the acquired sensorimotor coordination and its generalization ability. As a result, the subject trained with rhythmic movement showed high generalization ability, whereas subject with discrete learning did not. This suggested that the effect of rhythmic movement is significant on motor learning of visuomotor learning.