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Limited transfer and retention of locomotor adaptations from virtual reality obstacle avoidance to the physical world.
Locomotor training based in virtual reality (VR) is promising for motor skill learning, with transfer of VR skills in turn required to benefit daily life locomotion. This study aimed to assess whether VR-adapted obstacle avoidance can be transferred to a physical obstacle and whether such transfer is retained after 1 week. Thirty-two young adults were randomly divided between two groups. A control group (CG) merely walked on a treadmill and an intervention group (IG) trained crossing 50 suddenly-appearing virtual obstacles. Both groups crossed three physical obstacles (transfer task) immediately after training (T1) and 1 week later (T2, transfer retention). Repeated practice in VR led to a decrease in toe clearance along with greater ankle plantarflexion and knee extension. IG participants crossed physical obstacles with a lower toe clearance compared to CG but revealed significantly higher values compared to the VR condition. VR adaptation was fully retained over 1 week. For physical obstacle avoidance there were differences between toe clearance of the third obstacle at T1 and the first obstacle at T2, indicating only partial transfer retention. We suggest that perception-action coupling, and thus sensorimotor coordination, may differ between VR and the physical world, potentially limiting retained transfer between conditions. [Abstract copyright: © 2022. The Author(s).
Obstacle avoidance training in virtual environments leads to limb-specific locomotor adaptations but not to interlimb transfer in healthy young adults.
Obstacle avoidance is one of the skills required in coping with challenging situations encountered during walking. This study examined adaptation in gait stability and its interlimb transfer in a virtual obstacle avoidance task. Twelve young adults walked on a treadmill while wearing a virtual reality headset with their body state represented in the virtual environment. At random times, but always at foot touchdown, 50 virtual obstacles of constant size appeared 0.8 m in front of the participant requiring a step over with the right leg. Early, mid and late adaptation phases were investigated by pooling data from trials 1-3, 24-26 and 48-50. One left-leg obstacle appearing after 50 right-leg trials was used to investigate interlimb transfer. Toe clearance and the anteroposterior margin of stability (MoS) at foot touchdown were calculated for the stepping leg. Toe clearance decreased over repeated practice between early and late phases from 0.13 ± 0.05 m to 0.09 ± 0.04 m (mean ± SD, p < 0.05). MoS increased from 0.05 ± 0.02 m to 0.08 ± 0.02 m (p < 0.05) between early and late phases, with no significant differences between mid and late phases. No differences were found in toe clearance and MoS between the practiced right leg for early phase and the single trial of the left leg. Obstacle avoidance during walking in a virtual environment stimulated adaptive gait improvements that were related in a nonlinear manner to practice dose, though such gait adaptations seemed to be limited in their transferability between limbs. [Abstract copyright: Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
The holographic quantum effective potential at finite temperature and density
We develop a formalism that allows the computation of the quantum effective
potential of a scalar order parameter in a class of holographic theories at
finite temperature and charge density. The effective potential is a valuable
tool for studying the ground state of the theory, symmetry breaking patterns
and phase transitions. We derive general formulae for the effective potential
and apply them to determine the phase transition temperature and density in the
scaling region.Comment: 27 page
Square lattice Ising model susceptibility: Series expansion method and differential equation for
In a previous paper (J. Phys. A {\bf 37} (2004) 9651-9668) we have given the
Fuchsian linear differential equation satisfied by , the
``three-particle'' contribution to the susceptibility of the isotropic square
lattice Ising model. This paper gives the details of the calculations (with
some useful tricks and tools) allowing one to obtain long series in polynomial
time. The method is based on series expansion in the variables that appear in
the -dimensional integrals representing the -particle contribution to
the isotropic square lattice Ising model susceptibility . The
integration rules are straightforward due to remarkable formulas we derived for
these variables. We obtain without any numerical approximation as
a fully integrated series in the variable , where , with the conventional Ising model coupling constant. We also
give some perspectives and comments on these results.Comment: 28 pages, no figur
Asymmetry to symmetry transition of Fano line-shape: Analytical derivation
An analytical derivation of Fano line-shape asymmetry ratio has been
presented here for a general case. It is shown that Fano line-shape becomes
less asymmetric as \q is increased and finally becomes completely symmetric in
the limiting condition of q equal to infinity. Asymmetry ratios of Fano
line-shapes have been calculated and are found to be in good consonance with
the reported expressions for asymmetry ratio as a function of Fano parameter.
Application of this derivation is also mentioned for explanation of asymmetry
to symmetry transition of Fano line-shape in quantum confined silicon
nanostructures.Comment: 3 figures, Latex files, Theoretica
Dynamic Critical Behavior of a Swendsen-Wang-Type Algorithm for the Ashkin-Teller Model
We study the dynamic critical behavior of a Swendsen-Wang-type algorithm for
the Ashkin--Teller model. We find that the Li--Sokal bound on the
autocorrelation time ()
holds along the self-dual curve of the symmetric Ashkin--Teller model, and is
almost but not quite sharp. The ratio appears
to tend to infinity either as a logarithm or as a small power (). In an appendix we discuss the problem of extracting estimates of
the exponential autocorrelation time.Comment: 59 pages including 3 figures, uuencoded g-compressed ps file.
Postscript size = 799740 byte
Eliashberg-type equations for correlated superconductors
The derivation of the Eliashberg -- type equations for a superconductor with
strong correlations and electron--phonon interaction has been presented. The
proper account of short range Coulomb interactions results in a strongly
anisotropic equations. Possible symmetries of the order parameter include s, p
and d wave. We found the carrier concentration dependence of the coupling
constants corresponding to these symmetries. At low hole doping the d-wave
component is the largest one.Comment: RevTeX, 18 pages, 5 ps figures added at the end of source file, to be
published in Phys.Rev. B, contact: [email protected]
Charged hydrogenic problem in a magnetic field: Non-commutative translations, unitary transformations, and coherent states
An operator formalism is developed for a description of charged electron-hole
complexes in magnetic fields. A novel unitary transformation of the Hamiltonian
that allows one to partially separate the center-of-mass and internal motions
is proposed. We study the operator algebra that leads to the appearance of new
effective particles, electrons and holes with modified interparticle
interactions, and their coherent states in magnetic fields. The developed
formalism is used for studying a two-dimensional negatively charged
magnetoexciton . It is shown that Fano-resonances are present in the
spectra of internal transitions, indicating the existence of
three-particle quasi-bound states embedded in the continuum of higher Landau
levels.Comment: 9 pages + 2 figures, accepted in PRB, a couple of typos correcte
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