A VR experiment investigating how humans adapt fine motor movements when interacting with altered physics.
The system spawns pendulums of varying lengths directly in the player's hand, some behaving with correct physics and others with modified parameters. We record both the subject's hand movements and pendulum motion to analyze adaptation patterns.
This research examines whether motor adaptation is driven by internal predictive models of how physics should work or by reactive responses to sensory feedback, with applications for understanding motor control in physical therapy and rehabilitation contexts.