A paradigm to study the learning of muscle activity patterns outside of the natural repertoire
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| 100 | 1 | |a Ghavampour, Ali | |
| 245 | 1 | |a A paradigm to study the learning of muscle activity patterns outside of the natural repertoire | |
| 260 | |b Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press |c Feb 14, 2025 | ||
| 513 | |a Working Paper | ||
| 520 | 3 | |a The acquisition of novel muscle activity patterns is a key aspect of motor skill learning which can be seen at play, for example, when beginner musicians learn new guitar or piano chords. To study this process, here we introduce a new paradigm that requires quick and synchronous flexion and extension of multiple fingers. First, participants practiced all the 242 possible combinations of isometric finger flexion and extension around the metacarpophalangeal joint (i.e., chords). We found that some chords were initially extremely challenging, but participants could eventually achieve them with practice, showing that the initial difficulty did not reflect hard biomechanical constraints imposed by the interaction of tendons and ligaments. In a second experiment we found that chord learning was largely chord-specific and did not generalize to untrained chords. Finally, we explored which factors make some chords more difficult than others. Difficulty was well predicted by the muscle activity pattern required by that chord. Interestingly, difficulty related to how similar chords' muscle activity patterns are to the muscle activity patterns required by everyday hand use, and to the overall size of the muscle activity. Together, our results suggest that the new paradigm introduced in this work may provide a valuable tool to study the neural processes underlying the acquisition of novel muscle activity patterns in the human motor system.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest. | |
| 653 | |a Motor skill | ||
| 653 | |a Muscle contraction | ||
| 653 | |a Motor skill learning | ||
| 653 | |a Muscle function | ||
| 653 | |a Tendons | ||
| 653 | |a Activity patterns | ||
| 700 | 1 | |a Emanuele, Marco | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Shuja Riyaz Sayyid | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Jean-Jacques Orban De Xivry | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Michaels, Jonathan A | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Pruszynski, J Andrew | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Diedrichsen, Joern | |
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