Identifying the control structure of multijoint coordination during pistol shooting

• Published in: Experimental brain research Vol. 135; no. 3; pp. 382 - 404
• Main Authors: Scholz, John P., Schöner, Gregor, Latash, Mark L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin Springer 01.12.2000
• Subjects: Adult; Algorithms; Biological and medical sciences; Biomechanical Phenomena; Calibration; Firearms; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Joints - physiology; Male; Middle Aged; Motor control and motor pathways. Reflexes. Control centers of vegetative functions. Vestibular system and equilibration; Movement - physiology; Psychomotor Performance - physiology; Vertebrates: nervous system and sense organs; Human; Freedom degree; Coordination; Shooting; Joint; Orientation; Motor control; Posture; Osteoarticular system; Center of mass; Body movement; Strategy; Upper limb; Trajectory

The question of degrees of freedom in the control of multijoint movement is posed as the problem of discovering how the motor control system constrains the many possible combinations of joint postures to stabilize task-dependent essential variables. Success at a task can be achieved, in principle, b...