Naturalistic arm movements during obstacle avoidance in 3D and the identification of movement primitives

• Published in: Experimental brain research Vol. 222; no. 3; pp. 185 - 200
• Main Authors: Grimme, Britta, Lipinski, John, Schöner, Gregor
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer-Verlag 01.10.2012; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Analysis of Variance; Arm; Arm - physiology; Avoidance Learning - physiology; Biological and medical sciences; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Decomposition; Female; Functional Laterality - physiology; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Male; Models, Biological; Motor control and motor pathways. Reflexes. Control centers of vegetative functions. Vestibular system and equilibration; Movement - physiology; Neurology; Neurosciences; Principles; Psychomotor Performance - physiology; Research Article; Scaling; Somesthesis and somesthetic pathways (proprioception, exteroception, nociception); interoception; electrolocation. Sensory receptors; Spatial Behavior - physiology; Time Factors; Velocity; Vertebrates: nervous system and sense organs; Young Adult; Path selection; Movement primitives; 3D human arm movements; Obstacle avoidance; Motor control; Human; Obstacle; Selection; Body movement; Timing; Trajectory; Avoidance

By studying human movement in the laboratory, a number of regularities and invariants such as planarity and the principle of isochrony have been discovered. The theoretical idea has gained traction that movement may be generated from a limited set of movement primitives that would encode these invar...