Sensory-motor representations & error learning - experimental analysis of manual intelligence in first order & virtual reality

One central issue for the cognitive control of movement is the compensation of errors and learning processes that enhance error compensation mechanisms. This is especially true for very precise movements such as many manual actions. The present project combines methods and conventional experimental settings (first order reality) with approaches from Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality to embed subjects in interaction loops in which the occurrence and perception of errors can be manipulated and studied in novel ways. In this way we hope to gain new clues about error correction mechanisms, error compensation learning and their replication in technical systems such as robots.