Cognitive and sensory basis of motor learning

这项提案要求为正在进行的人类自愿运动的神经控制研究提供资金。我的研究计划的重点是研究自主肢体运动的中枢控制信号的组织，以及运动学习和感觉-运动适应的神经、认知和感觉机制。实验研究和模型研究相结合，用来检验关于多关节肢体运动如何被控制以及运动学习是如何实现的假设。本提案中概述的研究分为两个主要主题：(1)理解语境在运动学习中的作用；(2)运动学习对感觉系统的影响。这项研究的结果将大大增加我们对运动系统是如何组织以及运动和感觉系统如何相互作用的知识。这类知识可能有助于未来了解感觉-运动障碍在脑损伤中的基础，并可能有助于合理的方法来进行感觉-运动康复。

This proposal requests funds for ongoing research into the neural control of human voluntary movement. The focus of my research program is to study the organization of central control signals for voluntary limb movement, and the neural, cognitive and sensory mechanisms underlying motor learning and sensory-motor adaptation. A combination of empirical and modeling studies are used to test hypotheses about how multi-joint limb movements are controlled and how motor learning is achieved. The studies outlined in this proposal are organized in two major themes: (1) Understanding the role of context in motor learning and (2) Effects of motor learning on sensory systems. The results of this research will add significantly to our knowledge of how the motor system is organized and how motor and sensory systems interact. This kind of knowledge may be useful in future efforts to understand the bases of sensory-motor deficits in brain damage, and may contribute to rational approaches to sensory-motor rehabilitation.