Wearable devices for biofeedback rehabilitation: a systematic review and meta-analysis to design application rules and estimate the effectiveness on balance and gait …

T Bowman, E Gervasoni, C Arienti, SG Lazzarini… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Wearable devices are used in rehabilitation to provide biofeedback about biomechanical or
physiological body parameters to improve outcomes in people with neurological diseases …

Effect of immersive visualization technologies on cognitive load, motivation, usability, and embodiment

N Wenk, J Penalver-Andres, KA Buetler, T Nef… - Virtual Reality, 2023 - Springer
Virtual reality (VR) is a promising tool to promote motor (re) learning in healthy users and
brain-injured patients. However, in current VR-based motor training, movements of the users …

Competition, testosterone, and adult neurobehavioral plasticity

ABL Vermeer, I Riečanský, C Eisenegger - Progress in brain research, 2016 - Elsevier
Motivation in performance is often measured via competitions. Winning a competition has
been found to increase the motivation to perform in subsequent competitions. One potential …

Triple play: Additive contributions of enhanced expectancies, autonomy support, and external attentional focus to motor learning

G Wulf, R Lewthwaite, P Cardozo… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
In the OPTIMAL theory of motor learning [Wulf, G., & Lewthwaite, R.(2016). Optimizing
performance through intrinsic motivation and attention for learning: The OPTIMAL theory of …

Task errors contribute to implicit aftereffects in sensorimotor adaptation

LA Leow, W Marinovic, A de Rugy… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Perturbations of sensory feedback evoke sensory prediction errors (discrepancies between
predicted and actual sensory outcomes of movements), and reward prediction errors …

Reward during arm training improves impairment and activity after stroke: a randomized controlled trial

M Widmer, JPO Held, F Wittmann… - … and Neural Repair, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Learning and learning-related neuroplasticity in motor cortex are potential
mechanisms mediating recovery of movement abilities after stroke. These mechanisms …

Reward boosts reinforcement-based motor learning

P Vassiliadis, G Derosiere, C Dubuc, A Lete… - Iscience, 2021 - cell.com
Besides relying heavily on sensory and reinforcement feedback, motor skill learning may
also depend on the level of motivation experienced during training. Yet, how motivation by …

Promoting motor variability during robotic assistance enhances motor learning of dynamic tasks

Ö Özen, KA Buetler, L Marchal-Crespo - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Despite recent advances in robot-assisted training, the benefits of haptic guidance on motor
(re) learning are still limited. While haptic guidance may increase task performance during …

Non-invasive stimulation of the human striatum disrupts reinforcement learning of motor skills

P Vassiliadis, E Beanato, T Popa, F Windel… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
Reinforcement feedback can improve motor learning, but the underlying brain mechanisms
remain underexplored. In particular, the causal contribution of specific patterns of oscillatory …

Spatiotemporal dissociation of fMRI activity in the caudate nucleus underlies human de novo motor skill learning

Y Choi, EY Shin, S Kim - Proceedings of the National …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Motor skill learning involves a complex process of generating novel movement patterns
guided by evaluative feedback, such as a reward. Previous literature has suggested …