Influence of Visual Clue in the Motor Adaptation Process

Understanding the functioning of behavioral mechanisms related to neuromotor adaptation is becoming crucial to idealizing improved rehabilitation. Motor adaptation is a trial and error process for adjusting movement to new demands, modifying the movement by attempting judgment based on feedback. To maximize performance, forces can be generated stochastic to disrupt movement, whether dependent on speed or position that destabilizes fluid movement, forcing a motor adaptation process. Given this reality, it is essential to explore how the motor adaptation processes occur so that you can learn to predict the sensory consequences of motor commands. In this sense, the objective of this study was to verify how, and if learning occurs when visual cues, in face of force field disturbances, are applied in predetermined trajectory movements, and these factors will contribute to the adaptation of sensorimotor behavior. From a serious game, associated with a robotic platform (based on the ‘H-man’ model) for upper limbs, 10 volunteers were evaluated while performing a movement segment containing force field variations and visual cues. about the intensity and direction of the field. It was realized that the learning process occurs independently and that for a single movement there may be more than one adaptation.