This project aims to identify and to characterize the main motor behavioural parameters and factors of upper-limb motor skills performed by humans during daily-life activities. The main goals of the project are: (1) characterization of motor skills of the upper limbs; (2) identification of tasks and environmental features causative of changes (3) characterization of the upper limbs' functional tasks; (4) parametrization of the healthy and pathological pattern of human movement; (5) definition of perceptive and motor variables that influence motor (re) learning; (6) study of the influence of multimodal feedback in motor control; (7) procedure's validation study with healthy participants and stroke patients.

Duration:  24 months (started 01-06-2013)

Images

Placement of reflective markers for kinematic assessment

Schematic representation of targets' placement.

People / Institutions

Sandra Mouta, Miguel V. Correia, Carolina Vila-Chã, Dominic Noy, Ana Sofia Silva, Cláudia Silva, António Salazar, Carla Borges, Rosa Mariana Silva, Pedro Fonseca, João Ferreira, Ana Rita Pinheiro

Participating Institutions: INESC Porto

Funding

Bial Grant 77/12: Human motor re-learning – the use of sensor information fusion

Main Publications

• Aragão, B., Fontes, L., Mouta, S., Soares, E., Castelo-Branco, M., Correia, M.V., & Santos, J. (submitted). Visualization of translational biological motion from real motion capture. Behavioral Research Methods
• Silva CC, Mendonça C, Mouta S, Silva R, Campos JC, et al. (2013) Depth Cues and Perceived Audiovisual Synchrony of Biological Motion. PLoS ONE 8(11): e80096. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080096