Differences in Motor Planning Between Intact and Prosthetic Arms
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Miller, Jason Daniel
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Amputees who have been prescribed prosthetic limbs often abandon them. They do this because learning to use them is challenging, and effective training is difficult. We propose that better training can be offered given the knowledge of how motor planning differs when the end effector is prosthetic as opposed to intact. We studied fMRI data of subjects viewing both intact and prosthetic limbs performing object manipulations to study differences in motor planning. We found that motor planning between the two conditions is functionally different and can be parsed by a machine learning classifier. These findings open the door to further developments in effective prosthetic rehabilitation and general scientific understanding of prosthetic motor planning.
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