Hearing what you do: auditory feedback in motor learning, over-learning and re-learning

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titleHearing what you do: auditory feedback in motor learning, over-learning and re-learning
start_date2013/01/17
schedule10h30-12h
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location_infosalle de réunion de l’UFR
summaryAuditory feedback is, broadly defined, an auditory signal that contains information about performed movement. Music performance is an excellent candidate to study its influence on motor actions, since the auditory result is the explicit goal of the movement. Indeed, auditory feedback can guide online motor actions, but its influence on motor learning is much less clear. In this talk I will investigate the influence of auditory feedback in motor learning in healthy participants, focusing particularly on how we learn temporal control over movements. I will arguing that even nonmusicians are able to benefit from the temporal information supplied by the auditory signal and is sensitive to distortions of this temporal information. We will then turn to clinical populations (patients suffering from stroke and musician dystonia) that are re-learning to perform motor actions. I present novel analysis methods to establish timing properties and using these, will argue that these populations might, paradoxically, benefit from distortions in feedback. Implications for the human motor system in general are discussed.
responsiblesHoffmann, Marin