Motor coordination
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Motor coordination is a term used to refer to the coordination of movements, usually between different subsequent parts of the same movement or movements of several limbs or even several actors. Motor coordination arise from a complex coordination between:
- muscles
- limbs
- neural circuitry
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Motor coordination can be thought of as a set of processes that are necessary to achieve successful movement. Various aspects of movement may be coordinated.
- Eye-hand coordination: One scientific field analyzes how movements of the hand are coordinated. Typical findings relate to the eye looking at an object before the hand starts moving towards that object.
- Inter limb coordination: Another scientific field analyzes how movements are coordinated across limbs. Some results indicate that coordination can be modeled as coupled oscillators giving rise to the well-known HKB-model. Many of these studies fall into the framework of dynamical systems.
- Across time coordination: Yet another field analyzes how movements are coordinated across time. Both Motor Tape and Optimal Control are frequently used to explain such results.
[edit] References
- ^ Berthier NE, Rosenstein MT, and Barto AG. (2005). "Approximate optimal control as a model for motor learning". Psychological Review 112: 329–346.
