The influence of mental fatigue on functional perception-action coupling during skill acquisition

心理疲劳对技能习得过程中功能知觉-动作耦合的影响

• 批准号: RGPIN-2022-04858
• 负责人: Wattie, Nicholas
• 金额: $ 2.4万
• 依托单位: University of Ontario Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=757069
• 关键词: influence; mental; fatigue; functional; perception

Structuring learning environments and activities so that performers are able to retain the skills they practice, and be able to execute complex skills under varying situation and pressure conditions, is a challenge in many domains (e.g., sport and first responders). In particular, there are significant gaps in our fundamental knowledge of how affective states (e.g., feelings, emotions, and mood), influence the acquisition of perceptual and motor skills. Understanding how affective states influence the acquisition of skills that underpin expert performance can significantly improve how we train a range of performers and professionals. As such, the long-term goal of my research program is to improve evidence-based recommendations and applied tools for structuring affective learning environments and activities to optimize skill acquisition. The short-term objectives focus on addressing current gaps related to a specific type of affect, i.e. mental fatigue, and its influences on performance and learning: 1) Examining how mental fatigue influences the acquisition of motor skills, perceptual skills, and sensorimotor calibration. 2) Examining how affective states interact with task and individual characteristics to mediate or moderate the influence of mental fatigue. My lab's specific research approach involves a series of laboratory studies investigating how mental fatigue influences performance and learning of perceptual and motor skills. These studies will evaluate how practice and performance constraints, such as task specificity, complexity and degree of autonomy, interact with the influence of mental fatigue on functional perception-action pairings and perceptual-motor learning (Objective 1). We will also evaluate how factors such as sex, and skill level and general cognitive function moderate or mediate the influence of mental fatigue on perceptual-motor learning (Objective 2). My proposed research program will produce both short- and long-term outcomes that: a) contribute to our fundamental understanding of mental fatigue and its influence on perceptual processes, such as sensorimotor (re)calibration, performance, and the acquisition of perceptual-motor skill, while b) concurrently facilitating knowledge transfer of evidence for practitioners and performers. Another goal of my research program is to produce highly qualified trainees in the field of applied motor learning, who will work in a highly collaborative laboratory-based research environment, and gain experience working with and translating their research to practitioners. Developing better models and understanding of how affective states like mental fatigue influence learning and performance represents an exciting advancement in the field, and is an important step toward the long-term goal of being able to optimize learning environment for the development of expert performers.

构建学习环境和活动，以便表演者能够保留自己练习的技能，并能够在不同的情况和压力条件下执行复杂的技能，这是许多领域的挑战（例如，体育和急救人员）。特别是，我们对情感状态（例如感觉，情感和情绪）如何影响感知和运动技能的获得的基本知识存在很大的差距。了解情感状态如何影响基础专家表现的技能的获取可以显着改善我们培训一系列表演者和专业人士的方式。因此，我的研究计划的长期目标是改善基于证据的建议和用于构建情感学习环境和活动以优化技能获取的应用工具。短期目标的重点是解决与特定类型的情感相关的当前差距，即心理疲劳及其对性能和学习的影响：1）研究心理疲劳如何影响运动技能，感知技能和感觉运动校准的获取。 2）检查情感状态如何与任务和个人特征相互作用以调节或缓解精神疲劳的影响。 我实验室的特定研究方法涉及一系列实验室研究，研究心理疲劳如何影响感知和运动技能的性能和学习。这些研究将评估实践和绩效限制（例如任务特异性，复杂性和自主权程度）如何与精神疲劳对功能感知 - 行动配对和感知运动学习的影响相互作用（目标1）。我们还将评估性别，技能水平和一般认知功能等因素如何中等或介导精神疲劳对感知运动学习的影响（目标2）。我提出的研究计划将产生短期和长期结果：a）有助于我们对精神疲劳的基本理解及其对感知过程的影响，例如感觉运动（RE）校准，绩效以及对感知运动技能的获取，而B）同时促进了对实践者和绩效者的知识转移的知识转移。我的研究计划的另一个目标是在应用运动学习领域中生产高素质的学员，他们将在高度协作的基于实验室的研究环境中工作，并获得与从业人员一起工作并将其转化为从业者的经验。建立更好的模型并了解诸如精神疲劳之类的情感状态如何影响学习和绩效，这是该领域令人兴奋的进步，这是朝着能够优化专家表演者发展学习环境的长期目标的重要一步。