Boosting the Motor Outcome of the Untrained Hand by Action Observation: Mirror Visual Feedback, Video Therapy, or Both Combined—What Is More Effective?

Joint Authors

Bähr, Florian
Ritter, Alexander
Seidel, Gundula
Puta, Christian
Gabriel, Holger H. W.
Hamzei, Farsin

Source

Neural Plasticity

Issue

Vol. 2018, Issue 2018 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.1-10, 10 p.

Publisher

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Publication Date

2018-04-10

Country of Publication

Egypt

No. of Pages

10

Main Subjects

Biology
Medicine

Abstract EN

Action observation (AO) allows access to a network that processes visuomotor and sensorimotor inputs and is believed to be involved in observational learning of motor skills.

We conducted three consecutive experiments to examine the boosting effect of AO on the motor outcome of the untrained hand by either mirror visual feedback (MVF), video therapy (VT), or a combination of both.

In the first experiment, healthy participants trained either with MVF or without mirror feedback while in the second experiment, participants either trained with VT or observed animal videos.

In the third experiment, participants first observed video clips that were followed by either training with MVF or training without mirror feedback.

The outcomes for the untrained hand were quantified by scores from five motor tasks.

The results demonstrated that MVF and VT significantly increase the motor performance of the untrained hand by the use of AO.

We found that MVF was the most effective approach to increase the performance of the target effector.

On the contrary, the combination of MVF and VT turns out to be less effective looking from clinical perspective.

The gathered results suggest that action-related motor competence with the untrained hand is acquired by both mirror-based and video-based AO.

American Psychological Association (APA)

Bähr, Florian& Ritter, Alexander& Seidel, Gundula& Puta, Christian& Gabriel, Holger H. W.& Hamzei, Farsin. 2018. Boosting the Motor Outcome of the Untrained Hand by Action Observation: Mirror Visual Feedback, Video Therapy, or Both Combined—What Is More Effective?. Neural Plasticity،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1210454

Modern Language Association (MLA)

Bähr, Florian…[et al.]. Boosting the Motor Outcome of the Untrained Hand by Action Observation: Mirror Visual Feedback, Video Therapy, or Both Combined—What Is More Effective?. Neural Plasticity No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1210454

American Medical Association (AMA)

Bähr, Florian& Ritter, Alexander& Seidel, Gundula& Puta, Christian& Gabriel, Holger H. W.& Hamzei, Farsin. Boosting the Motor Outcome of the Untrained Hand by Action Observation: Mirror Visual Feedback, Video Therapy, or Both Combined—What Is More Effective?. Neural Plasticity. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1210454

Data Type

Journal Articles

Language

English

Notes

Includes bibliographical references

Record ID

BIM-1210454