Questions tagged [motor]
For questions surrounding movement such as stair walking, dynamic touch, time-to-contact (Tau) estimation, the motor cortex, end-effectors (muscles, glands, etc.), and motor deficits in humans and animals.
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Current directions in emulation theory
Over the decades there have been several theories from various aspects of cognitive science that have appealed to a link between perception and action as a way of understanding information processing ...
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Research showing short-term memory interferes with motor planning
Has research shown that keeping information in short-term memory, like two words or two numbers, make planning and completing a physical task more difficult?
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Derived knowledge from periodicity of harmonic motion?
This question is the third in a series, after:
1. Improved Typing as a result of slight movement
2. Neural Processes of Inducing Flow
Background:
Pseudo-random, 'swaying', motion appears to ...
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Why do we feel inclined to doodle on paper when talking over the phone but not when talking in person?
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Revisiting an earlier theme about "mind complementary activities", as I would call them, it dawned on me that the classical example of how doodling on paper complements talking ...
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Does increased motor development always occur at the expense of speech development, or vice versa?
It is often said that infants / toddlers* develop in a focused manner. I am specifically interested in the notion that a quick development of speech occurs at the expense of motor skill development ...
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How does the body experience free-fall during a hypnic jerk
Today I learned that a sudden jerk that you sometimes experience when you are just about to fall asleep due to a sense of free-fall or weightlessness is
called a hypnic jerk.
If, while sleeping, I ...
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What is inter-rater agreement for Laban Movement Analysis?
Annotation of datasets, such as those used in action [1] and emotion recognition [2], using Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) is usually done by Certified Laban Movement Analyst (CLMA). How much consensus ...
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Contemporary Resources on Cognitive Science of Typing
[Apologies if this is too general.]
I'm doing research on language production during the computer keyboard typing process. There are some great classic articles like Rumelhart & Norman, 1982 and ...
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Why is median motor nerve conduction velocity about 50 m/s?
I recently started reading Fitzgerald's clinical neuroanatomy and neuroscience (Mtui, et al. 2015) and reached chapter 12, electrodiagnostic examination, yesterday. The chapter deals, i.a., with nerve ...
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Do central pattern generators control musical performance?
Are the sometimes very fast and complicated rhythmic movements and often long lasting patterns a musician performs while playing a piece of music generated by central pattern generators (in the sense ...
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Alternatives to Laban Movement Analysis
Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) is an approach for describing movements using four main descriptors:
Body: which body parts move
Space: how much space is being taken up by the movement
Effort: the ...
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How to calculate latency between two different brain region in Steinmetz dataset?
I am new to Computational Neuroscience and recently, I came across to Steinmetz dataset and looking into the dataset, I had an idea of calculating the latency between two brain regions in terms of ...
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What're the best ways to improve hand-eye coordination/motor skills especially aiming "games"?
Aiming in video games, is a prime example of a fine motor skill, & maybe hand-eye coordination "idk? I'm no neuroscientist", but the community of aim practice & improvement "for ...