Relative Phase Alterations during Bimanual Skill Acquisition

The purposes of the research reported here were (a) to examine changes in relative phase during the acquisition of a new coordination pattern and (b) to determine the effect of learning this pattern on the ability to perform other coordination patterns. Ten subjects practiced an upper limb coordination task that required a 90 degrees phase offset and different amplitudes for each arm. A gross approximation of the mean relative phase for the …