Anticipatory coarticulation in non-speeded arm movements can be motor-equivalent, carry-over coarticulation always is

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Eva Hansen
Britta Grimme
Hendrik Reimann
Gregor Schöner
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[1] Ruhr University Bochum,Institut für Neuroinformatik
[2] University of Delaware,Department of Kinesiology and Applied Physiology
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Experimental Brain Research | 2018年 / 236卷
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Motor control; Movement planning; 3D human arm movements; Coarticulation; joint angles; End-effector trajectories; Uncontrolled manifold; Motor equivalence;
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In a sequence of arm movements, any given segment could be influenced by its predecessors (carry-over coarticulation) and by its successor (anticipatory coarticulation). To study the interdependence of movement segments, we asked participants to move an object from an initial position to a first and then on to a second target location. The task involved ten joint angles controlling the three-dimensional spatial path of the object and hand. We applied the principle of the uncontrolled manifold (UCM) to analyze the difference between joint trajectories that either affect (non-motor equivalent) or do not affect (motor equivalent) the hand’s trajectory in space. We found evidence for anticipatory coarticulation that was distributed equally in the two directions in joint space. We also found strong carry-over coarticulation, which showed clear structure in joint space: More of the difference between joint configurations observed for different preceding movements lies in directions in joint space that leaves the hand’s path in space invariant than in orthogonal directions in joint space that varies the hand’s path in space. We argue that the findings are consistent with anticipatory coarticulation reflecting processes of movement planning that lie at the level of the hand’s trajectory in space. Carry-over coarticulation may reflect primarily processes of motor control that are governed by the principle of the UCM, according to which changes that do not affect the hand’s trajectory in space are not actively delimited. Two follow-up experiments zoomed in on anticipatory coarticulation. These experiments strengthened evidence for anticipatory coarticulation. Anticipatory coarticulation was motor-equivalent when visual information supported the steering of the object to its first target, but was not motor equivalent when that information was removed. The experiments showed that visual updating of the hand’s path in space when the object approaches the first target only affected the component of the joint difference vector orthogonal to the UCM, consistent with the UCM principle.
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页码:1293 / 1307
页数:14
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