Sensorymotor Calibration Experiment
... Sensorimotor Calibration While Not Receiving Visual Cues The current study strives to understand how our brain accomplishes recalibration. ... His experiment removed visual cues from the subjects in order to rule out visual components as a result of recalibration. ... The present study attempts to recreate a similar experiment and to investigate the results further. ... Further, the current study in no way attempts to explain the theories presented by either experiment. ... In the marching-in-place task, the subjects’ auditory system was inhibited in order to increase the effect of the experiment. ... For the walking task portion of the sensorimotor calibration experiment, the hypothesis is again that after walking on the treadmill, the sensorimotor system will be recalibrated. ... Apparatus The experiment used a Cadence 70e exercise treadmill (Weslo; Hoffman Estates, IL). ... Design Marching-in-Place Task The marching-in-place task portion of the sensorimotor calibration experiment was a within-subject design, meaning that each subject completed each trial and all of his or her data was used. ... There were two independent variables for this section of the experiment. ... The results of the experiment supported the said hypothesis because the subjects drifted forward more after walking on the treadmill than they did before the treadmill. ... One major flaw of this experiment as a whole was the delay between the treadmill and the “START” line in the laboratory. ... Also, the subjects were introduced to the subject matter before they conducted the experiment.