Retention of Proprioceptive Recalibration Following Visuomotor Adaptation

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dc.contributor.advisorHenriques, Denise
dc.creatorNourouzpour, Nilufer
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-28T13:06:44Z
dc.date.available2015-08-28T13:06:44Z
dc.date.copyright2014-04-16
dc.date.issued2015-08-28
dc.date.updated2015-08-28T13:06:44Z
dc.degree.disciplineKinesiology & Health Science
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMSc - Master of Science
dc.description.abstractThis thesis builds on our laboratory’s recent findings that visuomotor adaptation following reaches with a misaligned cursor not only induces changes in an individual's motor output, but their proprioceptive sense of hand position as well. Long-term changes are seen in motor adaptation, however very little is known about the retention of changes in felt hand position. We sought to evaluate whether this recalibration in proprioception, following visuomotor adaptation, is sufficiently robust to be retained the following day (~24 hours later), and if so, to determine its extent. Visuomotor adaptation was induced by having subjects perform reaches to visual targets using a cursor representing their unseen hand, which had been gradually rotated 45º counterclockwise. Motor adaptation and proprioceptive recalibration were determined by assessing subjects’ reach aftereffects and changes in hand bias, respectively. We found that subjects adapted their reaches and recalibrated their sense of hand position following training with a misaligned cursor, as shown in Cressman and Henriques (2009). More importantly, subjects who showed proprioceptive recalibration in the direction of motor adaptation on Day 1 did retain changes in felt hand position and motor adaptation on Day 2. These findings suggest that in addition to motor changes, individuals are capable of retaining sensory changes in proprioception up to 24 hours later.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/29793
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subjectKinesiology
dc.subjectNeurosciences
dc.subject.keywordsVisuomotor adaptation
dc.subject.keywordsProprioceptive recalibration
dc.subject.keywordsRetention
dc.subject.keywordsProprioception
dc.subject.keywordsMotor learning
dc.titleRetention of Proprioceptive Recalibration Following Visuomotor Adaptation
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US

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