Impairments in Motor Cognition: Examining alternative routes to action

本研究旨在探讨中风、肢体失用症以及年龄对运动认知的影响，特别是对动作选择的影响。该工作方案包括健康参与者的基础研究，但主要面向患者的应用，目的是为诊断和康复方法提供启示。目的是研究两个概念，可能减少负荷受损的行为和神经成分的运动认知在中风患者。首先，研究相同动作的替代路径，其次，分析先前执行的动作对后续动作的干扰结转效应。将应用最近开发的范例，该范例利用基于规则和计划的操作选择。

The proposed studies investigate effects of stroke and limb apraxia as well as aging on motor cognition, specifically on selecting actions. The work-program includes fundamental studies with healthy participants, yet it is predominantly oriented towards applications in patients, with the aim to offer implications for diagnostic and rehabilitative approaches. The goal is to investigate two concepts that may reduce the load on impaired behavioral and neural components of motor cognition in stroke patients. Firstly, alternative routes to the same action will be studied, and secondly, interfering carry-over effects of prior executed actions on the subsequent movements will be analyzed. A recently developed paradigm will be applied that makes use of rule and plan-based action selection.