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Sensorimotor adaptation of whole-body postural control
- Source :
- Neuroscience. 356
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- The aim of the present study was to examine the modification of postural symmetry during quiet standing using a sensorimotor adaptation paradigm. A group of neurologically typical adult participants performed a visually guided mediolateral (left-right) weight shifting task requiring precise adjustments in body orientation. During one phase of the task, the visual feedback of center of pressure (COP) was systematically biased toward the left or the right, requiring an adjustment in posture to compensate. COP during quiet standing without visual feedback was examined prior to and immediately following the sensorimotor adaptation procedure, in order to observe whether compensatory adjustments in postural control resulting from the visual-feedback manipulation would transfer to the control of whole-body COP during quiet standing. Results showed that the sensorimotor adaptation procedure induced a small but reliable compensatory change in the stance of participants, resulting in a change in postural symmetry and control that was found to persist even after normal visual feedback was restored.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
030506 rehabilitation
medicine.medical_specialty
Posture
Visual feedback
Developmental psychology
Postural control
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
Center of pressure (terrestrial locomotion)
Feedback, Sensory
Orientation
medicine
Pressure
Humans
Attention
Postural Balance
General Neuroscience
Visually guided
Adaptation, Physiological
Body orientation
Female
0305 other medical science
Whole body
Psychology
Motor learning
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Psychomotor Performance
Quiet standing
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18737544
- Volume :
- 356
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Neuroscience
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9d0bbede174a7eaca99c39f2aaaac46b