TY - JOUR
T1 - Effects of complementary auditory feedback in robot-assisted lower extremity motor adaptation
AU - Zanotto, Damiano
AU - Rosati, Giulio
AU - Spagnol, Simone
AU - Stegall, Paul
AU - Agrawal, Sunil K.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This study investigates how complementary auditory feedback may affect short-term gait modifications induced by four training sessions with a robotic exoskeleton. Healthy subjects walked on a treadmill and were instructed to match a modified gait pattern derived from their natural one, while receiving assistance by the robot (kinetic guidance). The main question we wanted to answer is whether the most commonly used combination of feedback (i.e., haptic and visual) could be either enhanced by adding auditory feedback or successfully substituted with a combination of kinetic guidance and auditory feedback. Participants were randomly assigned to one of four groups, all of which received kinetic guidance. The control group received additional visual feedback, while the three experimental groups were each provided with a different modality of auditory feedback. The third experimental group also received the same visual feedback as the control group. Differences among the training modalities in gait kinematics, timing and symmetry were assessed in three post-training sessions.
AB - This study investigates how complementary auditory feedback may affect short-term gait modifications induced by four training sessions with a robotic exoskeleton. Healthy subjects walked on a treadmill and were instructed to match a modified gait pattern derived from their natural one, while receiving assistance by the robot (kinetic guidance). The main question we wanted to answer is whether the most commonly used combination of feedback (i.e., haptic and visual) could be either enhanced by adding auditory feedback or successfully substituted with a combination of kinetic guidance and auditory feedback. Participants were randomly assigned to one of four groups, all of which received kinetic guidance. The control group received additional visual feedback, while the three experimental groups were each provided with a different modality of auditory feedback. The third experimental group also received the same visual feedback as the control group. Differences among the training modalities in gait kinematics, timing and symmetry were assessed in three post-training sessions.
KW - Auditory feedback
KW - Motor adaptation
KW - Multimodal feedback
KW - Rehabilitation robotics
KW - Rhythmic auditory stimulation
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U2 - 10.1109/TNSRE.2013.2242902
DO - 10.1109/TNSRE.2013.2242902
M3 - Article
C2 - 23529102
AN - SCOPUS:84881546893
SN - 1534-4320
VL - 21
SP - 775
EP - 786
JO - IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
JF - IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
IS - 5
M1 - 6481450
ER -