Ursula Fehse

Ms. Ursula Fehse

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Academic Career Length

16Years (2011-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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15 December 2011 in BIO Web of Conferences
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AEAlfred O. Effenberg
Alfred O. Effenberg
UFUrsula Fehse
Ursula Fehse
AWAndreas Weber
Andreas Weber

7 January 2020 in Applied Sciences
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UFUrsula Fehse
Ursula Fehse
GSGerd Schmitz
Gerd Schmitz
DHDaniela Hartwig
Daniela Hartwig
Shashank GhaiShashank Ghai
Shashank Ghai
HBHeike Brock
Heike Brock
AEAlfred O. Effenberg
Alfred O. Effenberg
Reaching movements are usually initiated by visual events and controlled visually and kinesthetically. Lately, studies have focused on the possible benefit of auditory information for localization tasks, and also for movement control. This explorative study aimed to investigate if it is possible to code reaching space purely by auditory information. Therefore, the precision of reaching movements to merely acoustically coded target positions was analyzed. We studied the efficacy of acoustically effect-based and of additional acoustically performance-based instruction and feedback and the role of visual movement control. Twenty-four participants executed reaching movements to merely acoustically presented, invisible target positions in three mutually perpendicular planes in front of them. Effector-endpoint trajectories were tracked using inertial sensors. Kinematic data regarding the three spatial dimensions and the movement velocity were sonified. Thus, acoustic instruction and real-time feedback of the movement trajectories and the target position of the hand were provided. The subjects were able to align their reaching movements to the merely acoustically instructed targets. Reaching space can be coded merely acoustically, additional visual movement control does not enhance reaching performance. On the basis of these results, a remarkable benefit of kinematic movement acoustics for the neuromotor rehabilitation of everyday motor skills can be assumed.