* Reinforcement Signaling Can Be Used to Reduce Elements of Cerebellar Reaching Ataxia.
- Damage to the cerebellum causes a disabling movement disorder called ataxia, which is characterized by poorly coordinated movement. Arm ataxia causes dysmetria (over- or under-shooting of targets) with many corrective movements. As a result, people with cerebellar damage exhibit reaching movements with highly irregular and prolonged movement paths. Cerebellar patients are also impaired in error-based motor learning, which may impede rehabilitation interventions. However, we have recently shown that cerebellar patients can learn a simple reaching task using a binary reinforcement paradigm, in which feedback is based on participants' mean performance. Here, we present a pilot study that examined whether patients with cerebellar damage can use this reinforcement training to learn a more complex motor task-to decrease the path length of their reaches. We compared binary reinforcement training to a control condition of massed practice without reinforcement feedback. In both conditions, participants made target-directed reaches in 3-dimensional space while vision of their movement was occluded. In the reinforcement training condition, reaches with a path length below participants' mean were reinforced with an auditory stimulus at reach endpoint. We found that patients were able to use reinforcement signaling to significantly reduce their reach paths. Massed practice produced no systematic change in patients' reach performance. Overall, our results suggest that binary reinforcement training can improve reaching movements in patients with cerebellar damage and the benefit cannot be attributed solely to repetition or reduced visual control.
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を覆って, を越えて, の向こう側に, より多く, 2.もう一度, 繰り返して
Overview of noun over
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1. over -- ((cricket) the division of play during which six balls are bowled at the batsman by one
player from the other team from the same end of the pitch)
Overview of adj over
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1. (21) complete, concluded, ended, over, all over, terminated -- (having come or been brought to a
conclusion; "the harvesting was complete"; "the affair is over, ended, finished"; "the abruptly
terminated interview")
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1. (23) over -- (at or to a point across intervening space etc.; "come over and see us some time";
"over there")
2. (2) over -- (throughout an area; "he is known the world over")
3. (1) over, o'er -- (throughout a period of time; "stay over the weekend")
4. over -- (beyond the top or upper surface or edge; forward from an upright position; "a roof that
hangs over";)
5. all over, over -- (over the entire area; "the wallpaper was covered all over with flowers"; "she
ached all over"; "everything was dusted over with a fine layer of soot")
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