Coherent Multimodal Sensory Information Allows Switching between Gravitoinertial Contexts.

ABSTRACT: Whether the central nervous system is capable to switch between contexts critically depends on experimental details. Motor control studies regularly adopt robotic devices to perturb the dynamics of a certain task. Other approaches investigate motor control by altering the gravitoinertial context itself as in parabolic flights and human centrifuges. In contrast to conventional robotic experiments, where only the hand is perturbed, these gravitoinertial or immersive settings coherently plunge participants into new environments. However, radically different they are, perfect adaptation of motor responses are commonly reported. In object manipulation tasks, this translates into a good matching of the grasping force or grip force to the destabilizing load force. One possible bias in these proto

SUBMITTER: Barbiero M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5425486 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature