Sensory integration in the learning of aiming toward "self-defined" targets

Christelle Robin (1) , Lucette Toussaint (1) , Yannick Blandin (1) , Annie Vinter (2)

1 CeRCA [Poitiers] - Centre de recherches sur la cognition et l'apprentissage [UMR 7295]
2 LEAD - Laboratoire d'Etude de l'Apprentissage et du Développement [Dijon]

This study aimed at supporting the specificity of learning hypothesis, when aiming was based on internal cues, as directing the hand toward a "self-defined" target location. Participants practiced modest (20 trials) or intensive (720 trials) training with visual and proprioceptive information or proprioceptive information only. Pretests and posttests were performed in sensory conditions that did or did not match the training condition. Results showed that dynamic visual cues played a dominant role at the beginning of the task, and an intensive practice resulted in increased accuracy of kinesthetic information and efferent mechanisms of motor responses. These results have implications with regard to motor learning conceptions and training as a function of the task constraints.

Mots clés: specificity of practice, pointing, motor learning, sensorimotor representation

Domaines: Psychologie et comportements

Christelle Robin, Lucette Toussaint, Yannick Blandin, Annie Vinter. Sensory integration in the learning of aiming toward "self-defined" targets. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2004, 75 (4), pp.381-7. ⟨10.1080/02701367.2004.10609171⟩. ⟨hal-00508450⟩