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Learning movements when vision is altered

This study uses ball throwing and special glasses to investigate how people with Parkinson's adapt their movements.

Learning by observing or collecting information · Study reference: DRKS00008868

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Start (reported date)
2015-06-11

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  • 2026-10-11 — recruiting

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Sex eligibility reported by registry: all

Inclusion criteria: Idiopatic Parkinson disease Exclusion criteria: Myopia, orthopaedic disease of the gleno-humeral joint, NYHA III-IV, patients who are not able to give informed consent because of mental illness or intellectual disability
Full study name & original research details

Official study title

Visomotor Adaption in Parkinson Disease: The Role of the Basal Ganglia in Reinforcement Learning

Original description

Intervention: Group 1: The task for the patients is to throw a ball 300 times against a wall. During the experiment patients are wearing different prism-classes to test visuomotor adaption. In one specific experimental phase patients receive reward prediction errors to trigger reinforcement learning. Group 2: The patients in the controllgroup perform the same experimental procedure. However this group differ with regard to the feedback signal. Patients adapt their motor commands based on sensory prediction errors (error-based learning). Primary outcome: Accuracy (movement error) and variability of the throws depending on the motor learning strategy (reinforcement vs. error-based learning)

Conditions reported: Parkinson DiseaseMotor Learning G20;Parkinson disease

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Study type
Observational
Interventions
Group 1: The task for the patients is to throw a ball 300 times against a wall. During the experiment patients are wearing different prism-classes to test visuomotor adaption. In one specific experimental phase patients receive reward prediction errors to trigger reinforcement learning. Group 2: The patients in the controllgroup perform the same experimental procedure. However this group differ with regard to the feedback signal. Patients adapt their motor commands based on sensory prediction errors (error-based learning).
Phases
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Sponsor
Universität Freiburg, Institut für Sport und Sportwissenschaften
Start date reported by registry
2015-06-11 (reported)

Registry updated: Not reported · Status last verified by the registry submitter: Not reported

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Christian Leukel · +49 176 203 4541 · christian.leukel@sport.uni-freiburg.de

Study locations

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Germany

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