Reaching to inhibit a prepotent response: A wearable 3-axis accelerometer kinematic analysis.

ABSTRACT: The present work explores the distinctive contribution of motor planning and control to human reaching movements. In particular, the movements were triggered by the selection of a prepotent response (Dominant) or, instead, by the inhibition of the prepotent response, which required the selection of an alternative one (Non-dominant). To this end, we adapted a Go/No-Go task to investigate both the dominant and non-dominant movements of a cohort of 19 adults, utilizing kinematic measures to discriminate between the planning and control components of the two actions. In this experiment, a low-cost, easy to use, 3-axis wrist-worn accelerometer was put to good use to obtain raw acceleration data and to compute and break down its velocity components. The values obtained with this task indicate th

SUBMITTER: Angeli A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8281986 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature