Eye-hand decoupling decreases visually guided reaching independently of posture but reduces sway while standing: Evidence for supra-postural control
| Autor: | Marc Dalecki, Shijun Yan, Matthew A Yeomans, Jan M. Hondzinski |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0301 basic medicine
Male medicine.medical_specialty Eye Movements Kinematics Sitting law.invention Postural control Task (project management) 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Touchscreen Physical medicine and rehabilitation law medicine Humans Postural Balance Sitting Position Movement (music) General Neuroscience Visually guided Decoupling (cosmology) Hand Healthy Volunteers 030104 developmental biology Standing Position Female Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Psychomotor Performance |
| Zdroj: | Neuroscience letters. 752 |
| ISSN: | 1872-7972 |
| Popis: | We investigated whether visually guided reaching differs for sitting and standing postures while the eyes and hand are coupled to move in the same direction or decoupled to move in opposite directions. We also investigated how coupled and decoupled reaching tasks influenced standing postural control. Eighteen healthy young adults (M = 21 years) moved a cursor using finger movements along a vertical touchscreen while sitting or standing. In an eye-hand coupling (EH) task, participants moved their finger/cursor from a central target to a peripheral target located either up, down, left, or right. In an eye-hand decoupling (EHD) task, participant’s finger movement moved the cursor in the opposite direction. Sway measures during the standing condition and kinematic variables for the cursor offered insight into whole-body control. Performances in EH revealed smaller errors and faster movements than EHD regardless of postural condition. Similar hand movements existed between sitting and standing when accounting for task, while greater variability in absolute endpoint errors existed for standing than sitting when task was ignored. Less postural sway existed for EHD than EH when standing. These data provide evidence that when participants decoupled the eyes and hand movement direction while standing, they attenuated sway to support control of this complex, cognitively demanding, visuomotor task. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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