From Action Representation to Action Execution: Exploring the Links Between Cognitive and Biomechanical Levels of Motor Control
Along with superior performance, research indicates that expertise is associated with a number of mediating cognitive adaptations. To this extent, extensive practice is associated with the development of general and task-specific mental representations, which play an important role in the organizati...
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doaj-b189b3888e644a18b39bc81838cca5b52020-11-24T22:27:27ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience1662-51882013-09-01710.3389/fncom.2013.0012757399From Action Representation to Action Execution: Exploring the Links Between Cognitive and Biomechanical Levels of Motor ControlWilliam eLand0William eLand1William eLand2Dima eVolchenkov3Dima eVolchenkov4Bettina E. Bläsing5Bettina E. Bläsing6Bettina E. Bläsing7Thomas eSchack8Thomas eSchack9Thomas eSchack10Bielefeld UnviersityBielefeld UniversityBielefeld UniversityBielefeld UniversityBielefeld UniversityBielefeld UnviersityBielefeld UniversityBielefeld UniversityBielefeld UnviersityBielefeld UniversityBielefeld UniversityAlong with superior performance, research indicates that expertise is associated with a number of mediating cognitive adaptations. To this extent, extensive practice is associated with the development of general and task-specific mental representations, which play an important role in the organization and control of action. Recently, new experimental methods have been developed, which allow for investigating the organization and structure of these representations, along with the functional structure of the movement kinematics. In the current article, we present a new approach for examining the overlap between skill representations and motor output. In doing so, we first present an architecture model, which addresses links between biomechanical and cognitive levels of motor control. Next, we review the state of the art in assessing memory structures underlying complex action. Following we present a new spatio-temporal decomposition method for illuminating the functional structure of movement kinematics, and finally, we apply these methods to investigate the overlap between the structure of motor representations in memory and their corresponding kinematic structures. Our aim is to understand the extent to which the output at a kinematic level is governed by representations at a cognitive level of motor control.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncom.2013.00127/fullMental Representationbasic action conceptskinematic structurespatio-tempral kinematic decomposition of movementstructure dimensional analysis - motoricshierarchical motor control |
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From Action Representation to Action Execution: Exploring the Links Between Cognitive and Biomechanical Levels of Motor Control |
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From Action Representation to Action Execution: Exploring the Links Between Cognitive and Biomechanical Levels of Motor Control |
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From Action Representation to Action Execution: Exploring the Links Between Cognitive and Biomechanical Levels of Motor Control |
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From Action Representation to Action Execution: Exploring the Links Between Cognitive and Biomechanical Levels of Motor Control |
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From Action Representation to Action Execution: Exploring the Links Between Cognitive and Biomechanical Levels of Motor Control |
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from action representation to action execution: exploring the links between cognitive and biomechanical levels of motor control |
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Frontiers Media S.A. |
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Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience |
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1662-5188 |
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2013-09-01 |
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Along with superior performance, research indicates that expertise is associated with a number of mediating cognitive adaptations. To this extent, extensive practice is associated with the development of general and task-specific mental representations, which play an important role in the organization and control of action. Recently, new experimental methods have been developed, which allow for investigating the organization and structure of these representations, along with the functional structure of the movement kinematics. In the current article, we present a new approach for examining the overlap between skill representations and motor output. In doing so, we first present an architecture model, which addresses links between biomechanical and cognitive levels of motor control. Next, we review the state of the art in assessing memory structures underlying complex action. Following we present a new spatio-temporal decomposition method for illuminating the functional structure of movement kinematics, and finally, we apply these methods to investigate the overlap between the structure of motor representations in memory and their corresponding kinematic structures. Our aim is to understand the extent to which the output at a kinematic level is governed by representations at a cognitive level of motor control. |
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Mental Representation basic action concepts kinematic structure spatio-tempral kinematic decomposition of movement structure dimensional analysis - motorics hierarchical motor control |
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http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncom.2013.00127/full |
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