期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
卷 127, 期 5, 页码 1407-1416出版社
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00003.2022
关键词
movement planning; movement repetition; movement variability; reaction time
资金
- Donders Institute
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research NWO-VICI [453-11-001]
Professional athletes benefit from practicing even well-practiced movements, as repetition reduces both initial and endpoint variability in a sequence of reaching movements.
Professional golfers spend years practicing, but will still perform one or two practice swings without a ball before executing the actual swing. Why do they do this? In this study, we tested the hypothesis that repeating a well-practiced movement leads to a reduction of movement variability. To operationalize this hypothesis, participants were tested in a center-out reaching task with four different targets, on four different days. To probe the effect of repetition they performed random sequences from one to six movements to the same target. Our findings show that, with repetition, movements are not only initiated earlier but their variability is reduced across the entire movement trajectory. Furthermore, this effect is present within and across the four sessions. Together, our results suggest that movement repetition changes the tradeoff between movement initiation and movement NEW & NOTEWORTHY Professional athletes practice movements that they have performed thousands of times in training just before it is their turn in a game. Why do they do this? Our results indicate that both initial and endpoint variability reduce with repetition in a short sequence of reaching movements. This means that even well-practiced movements benefit from practice.
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