Human brain performance in learning complex temporal patterns

This paper presents the experiments investigating the healthy adult human brain performance on motor tasks with simple and complex temporal patterns. A 2DOF manipulandum and a set of interactive computer games were used in this study. The games consist of a falling target that should be caught under different temporal constraints that change in every new trial by a change in the target´s falling rate. Target´s falling rate pattern included: linearly incremental, 2^nd order polynomial and random. These patterns were tested on 10 healthy adult subjects and the outcomes were compared with respect to their association with the actual falling target´s pattern. Results show the best and the worst observed performances to belong to linearly incremental and random games, respectively.