Anticipatory postural adjustments before load pickup in a bi-manual whole body lifting task

1997 ◽  
Vol 29 (9) ◽  
pp. 1208-1215 ◽  
Author(s):  
HUUB M. TOUSSAINT ◽  
DIANNE A.C. M. COMMISSARIS ◽  
MARCO J. M. HOOZEMANS ◽  
MICHIEL J. OBER ◽  
PETER J. BEEK
Keyword(s):  
Anticipatory Postural Adjustments ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Postural Adjustments ◽  
Lifting Task ◽  
Body Lifting

Scaling anticipatory postural adjustments dependent on confidence of load estimation in a bi-manual whole-body lifting task

1998 ◽  
Vol 120 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. M. Toussaint ◽  
Yvonne M. Michies ◽  
Marije N. Faber ◽  
D. A. C. M Commissaris ◽  
Jaap H. van Dieën
Keyword(s):  
Anticipatory Postural Adjustments ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Load Estimation ◽  
Postural Adjustments ◽  
Lifting Task ◽  
Body Lifting

scholarly journals Overview of the Cerebellar Function in Anticipatory Postural Adjustments and of the Compensatory Mechanisms Developing in Neural Dysfunctions

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (15) ◽  
pp. 5088
Author(s):  
Silvia Maria Marchese ◽  
Veronica Farinelli ◽  
Francesco Bolzoni ◽  
Roberto Esposti ◽  
Paolo Cavallari
Keyword(s):  
Motor Performance ◽  
Center Of Mass ◽  
Anticipatory Postural Adjustments ◽  
Brain Lesions ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Compensatory Mechanisms ◽  
Postural Adjustments ◽  
Cerebellar Function ◽  
Neural Dysfunctions

This review aims to highlight the important contribution of the cerebellum in the Anticipatory Postural Adjustments (APAs). These are unconscious muscular activities, accompanying every voluntary movement, which are crucial for optimizing motor performance by contrasting any destabilization of the whole body and of each single segment. Moreover, APAs are deeply involved in initiating the displacement of the center of mass in whole-body reaching movements or when starting gait. Here we present literature that illustrates how the peculiar abilities of the cerebellum i) to predict, and contrast in advance, the upcoming mechanical events; ii) to adapt motor outputs to the mechanical context, and iii) to control the temporal relationship between task-relevant events, are all exploited in the APA control. Moreover, recent papers are discussed which underline the key role of cerebellum ontogenesis in the correct maturation of APAs. Finally, on the basis of a survey of animal and human studies about cortical and subcortical compensatory processes that follow brain lesions, we propose a candidate neural network that could compensate for cerebellar deficits and suggest how to verify such a hypothesis.

Adaptation of center of mass control under microgravity in a whole-body lifting task

1999 ◽  
Vol 125 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Kingma ◽  
Huub M. Toussaint ◽  
Dianne A. C. M. Commissaris ◽  
Geert J. P. Savelsbergh
Keyword(s):  
Center Of Mass ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Lifting Task ◽  
Body Lifting

Acquisition of anticipatory postural adjustments in a bimanual load-lifting task: normal and pathological aspects

1999 ◽  
Vol 128 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 229-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Massion ◽  
Marat Ioffe ◽  
Christina Schmitz ◽  
François Viallet ◽  
Radka Gantcheva
Keyword(s):  
Anticipatory Postural Adjustments ◽  
Postural Adjustments ◽  
Lifting Task
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