CiNet Monthly Seminar

October 30, 2023
16:00-17:00 JST (BST + 8:00)

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“Challenges and new approaches to study the control and learning of real-life motor skills”

Andrea d’Avella
Professor
Department of Biomedical, Dental, Morphological and Functional Imaging Sciences
University of Messina, Italy

Host : Sergio Gurgone

Abstract:
Motor control studies have long focused on simple tasks involving a limited number of degrees-of-freedom. The nervous system might overcome the complexity of controlling many degrees-of-freedom through a modular organization, but this possibility is still debated. Modeling of motor learning has also relied on simple tasks and has provided only limited account of the modular organization of motor control and of the large inter-individual differences observed in complex tasks. To tackle real-life motor skills, we need to systematically investigate individual control strategies and motor learning with a modular organization. I will discuss new approaches to characterize individual strategies and performance in complex motor tasks, and to investigate learning of new muscle synergies after remapping of the forces generated by muscles simulated using myoelectric control in a virtual environment.