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Vassilia Hatzitaki1, Nicholas Stergiou2, George Sofianidis1, Anastasia Kyvelidou2.
Abstract
Variability is an inherent and important feature of human movement. This variability has form exhibiting a chaotic structure. Visual feedback training using regular predictive visual target motions does not take into account this essential characteristic of the human movement, and may result in task specific learning and loss of visuo-motor adaptability. In this study, we asked how well healthy young adults can track visual target cues of varying degree of complexity during whole-body swaying in the Anterior-Posterior (AP) and Medio-Lateral (ML) direction. Participants were asked to track three visual target motions: a complex (Lorenz attractor), a noise (brown) and a periodic (sine) moving target while receiving online visual feedback about their performance. Postural sway, gaze and target motion were synchronously recorded and the degree of force-target and gaze-target coupling was quantified using spectral coherence and Cross-Approximate entropy. Analysis revealed that both force-target and gaze-target coupling was sensitive to the complexity of the visual stimuli motions. Postural sway showed a higher degree of coherence with the Lorenz attractor than the brown noise or sinusoidal stimulus motion. Similarly, gaze was more synchronous with the Lorenz attractor than the brown noise and sinusoidal stimulus motion. These results were similar regardless of whether tracking was performed in the AP or ML direction. Based on the theoretical model of optimal movement variability tracking of a complex signal may provide a better stimulus to improve visuo-motor adaptation and learning in postural control.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 25774508 PMCID: PMC4361653 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119828
Source DB: PubMed Journal: PLoS One ISSN: 1932-6203 Impact factor: 3.240
Fig 1Set up.
Experimental setup and visual stimuli presentation a: Medio_Lateral direction (ML), b: Anterior-Posterior (AP) direction
Fig 2Stimulus signals.
Signals used for constructing stimuli motion: Lorenz attractor (a), brown noise (b) and sine (c)
Fig 3Performance-target curves.
Performance (red line)–target (blue line) curves plotted for the three stimuli motions of a representative trial
Fig 4Coherence results.
Force-target (a) and gaze-target (b) coherence for different stimuli motions and sway directions.
Fig 5Cross Approximate Entropy results.
Force-target (a) and gaze-target (b) Cross Approximate Entropy for different stimuli motions and sway directions.