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	Author	Zacks, O.; Friedman, J.
	Title	Analogies can speed up the motor learning process			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2020	Publication	Scientific Reports	Abbreviated Journal	Sci Rep
	Volume	10	Issue	1	Pages	6932
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	Abstract	Analogies have been shown to improve motor learning in various tasks and settings. In this study we tested whether applying analogies can shorten the motor learning process and induce insight and skill improvement in tasks that usually demand many hours of practice. Kinematic measures were used to quantify participant's skill and learning dynamics. For this purpose, we used a drawing task, in which subjects drew lines to connect dots, and a mirror game, in which subjects tracked a moving stimulus. After establishing a baseline, subjects were given an analogy, explicit instructions or no further instruction. We compared their improvement in skill (quantified by coarticulation or smoothness), accuracy and movement duration. Subjects in the analogy and explicit groups improved their coarticulation in the target task, while significant differences were found in the mirror game only at a slow movement frequency between analogy and controls.We conclude that a verbal analogy can be a useful tool for rapidly changing motor kinematics and movement strategy in some circumstances, although in the tasks selected it did not produce better performance in most measurements than explicit guidance. Furthermore, we observed that different movement facets may improve independently from others, and may be selectively affected by verbal instructions. These results suggest an important role for the type of instruction in motor learning.
	Address	Dept. of Physical Therapy, Stanley Steyer School of Health Professions, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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	Language	English	Summary Language		Original Title
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	ISSN	2045-2322	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	PMID:32332826; PMCID:PMC7181737			Approved	no
	Call Number	Penn State @ write.to.jason @			Serial	105
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	Author	Ezrati, O.; Friedman, J.; Dar, R.
	Title	Attenuation of access to internal states in high obsessive-compulsive individuals might increase susceptibility to false feedback: Evidence from a visuo-motor hand-reaching task			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2019	Publication	Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry	Abbreviated Journal	Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
	Volume	65	Issue		Pages	101445
	Keywords	Obsessive-compulsive disorder; Movement; Agency; Proprioception; Proxies
	Abstract	Background and objectives The Seeking Proxies for Internal States (SPIS) model of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) posits that obsessive-compulsive (OC) individuals have attenuated access to their internal states. Hence, they seek and rely on proxies, or discernible substitutes for these internal states. In previous studies, participants with high OC tendencies and OCD patients, compared to controls, showed increased reliance on external proxies and were more influenced by false feedback when judging their internal states. This study is the first to examine the effects of false feedback on performance of hand movements in participants with high and low OC tendencies. Method Thirty-four participants with high OC tendencies and 34 participants with low OC tendencies were asked to perform accurate hand reaches without visual feedback in two separate sessions of a computerized hand-reaching task: once after valid feedback training of their hand location and once with false-rotated feedback. We assessed the accuracy and directional adaptation of participants' reaches. Results As predicted, high OC participants evidenced a larger decrease in their hand positioning accuracy after training with false feedback compared to low OC participants. Limitations The generalization of our findings to OCD requires replication with a clinical sample. Conclusions These results suggest that in addition to self-perceptions, motor performance of OC individuals is prone to be overly influenced by false feedback, possibly due to attenuated access to proprioceptive cues. These findings may be particularly relevant to understanding the distorted sense of agency in OCD.
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	ISSN	0005-7916	ISBN		Medium
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	Call Number				Serial	95
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	Author	Salzer, Y.; Friedman, J.
	Title	Reaching trajectories unravel modality-dependent temporal dynamics of the automatic process in the Simon task: a model-based approach			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2020	Publication	Psychological Research	Abbreviated Journal	Psychol Res
	Volume	84	Issue	6	Pages	1700-1713
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	Abstract	The Simon effect represents a phenomenon in which the location of the stimuli affects the speed and accuracy of the response, despite being irrelevant for the task demands. This is believed to be due to an automatic activation of a response corresponding to the location of the stimuli, which conflicts with the controlled decision process based on relevant stimuli features. Previously, differences in the nature of the Simon effect (i.e., the pattern of change of the effect across the distribution of response times) between visual and somatosensory stimuli were reported. We hypothesize that the temporal dynamics of visual and somatosensory automatic and controlled processes vary, thus driving the reported behavioral differences. While most studies have used response times to study the underlying mechanisms involved, in this study we had participants reach out to touch the targets and recorded their arm movements using a motion capture system. Importantly, the participants started their movements before a final decision was made. In this way, we could analyze the movements to gain insights into the competition between the automatic and controlled processes. We used this technique to describe the results in terms of a model assuming automatic activation due to location-based evidence, followed by inhibition. We found that for the somatosensory Simon effect, the decay of the automatic process is significantly slower than for the visual Simon effect, suggesting quantitative differences in this automatic process between the visual and somatosensory modalities.
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	Language	English	Summary Language		Original Title
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	ISSN	0340-0727	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	PMID:30980236			Approved	no
	Call Number				Serial	97
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	Author	Frenkel-Toledo, S.; Yamanaka, J.; Friedman, J.; Feldman, A.G.; Levin, M.F.
	Title	Referent control of anticipatory grip force during reaching in stroke: an experimental and modeling study			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2019	Publication	Experimental Brain Research	Abbreviated Journal	Exp Brain Res
	Volume	237	Issue	7	Pages	1655-1672
	Keywords	Anticipatory grip force; Referent control; Stroke
	Abstract	To evaluate normal and impaired control of anticipatory grip force (GF) modulation, we compared GF production during horizontal arm movements in healthy and post-stroke subjects, and, based on a physiologically feasible dynamic model, determined referent control variables underlying the GF-arm motion coordination in each group. 63% of 13 healthy and 48% of 13 stroke subjects produced low sustained initial force (< 10 N) and increased GF prior to arm movement. Movement-related GF increases were higher during fast compared to self-paced arm extension movements only in the healthy group. Differences in the patterns of anticipatory GF increases before the arm movement onset between groups occurred during fast extension arm movement only. In the stroke group, longer delays between the onset of GF change and elbow motion were related to clinical upper limb deficits. Simulations showed that GFs could emerge from the difference between the actual and the referent hand aperture (Ra) specified by the CNS. Similarly, arm movement could result from changes in the referent elbow position (Re) and could be affected by the co-activation (C) command. A subgroup of stroke subjects, who increased GF before arm movement, could specify different patterns of the referent variables while reproducing the healthy typical pattern of GF-arm coordination. Stroke subjects, who increased GF after arm movement onset, also used different referent strategies than controls. Thus, altered anticipatory GF behavior in stroke subjects may be explained by deficits in referent control.
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	Language	English	Summary Language		Original Title
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	ISSN	0014-4819	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	PMID:30976821			Approved	no
	Call Number				Serial	98
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	Author	Dempsey-Jones, H.; Wesselink, D.B.; Friedman, J.; Makin, T.R.
	Title	Organized Toe Maps in Extreme Foot Users			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2019	Publication	Cell Reports	Abbreviated Journal	Cell Reports
	Volume	28	Issue	11	Pages	2748-2756.e4
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	Abstract	Although the fine-grained features of topographic maps in the somatosensory cortex can be shaped by everyday experience, it is unknown whether behavior can support the expression of somatotopic maps where they do not typically occur. Unlike the fingers, represented in all primates, individuated toe maps have only been found in non-human primates. Using 1-mm resolution fMRI, we identify organized toe maps in two individuals born without either upper limb who use their feet to substitute missing hand function and even support their profession as foot artists. We demonstrate that the ordering and structure of the artists’ toe representation mimics typical hand representation. We further reveal “hand-like” features of activity patterns, not only in the foot area but also similarly in the missing hand area. We suggest humans may have an innate capacity for forming additional topographic maps that can be expressed with appropriate experience.
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	Publisher	Elsevier	Place of Publication		Editor
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	ISSN	2211-1247	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.08.027			Approved	no
	Call Number				Serial	99
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