ArticleJournal of neurophysiology2012
Learning about gravity: segmental assessment of upright control as infants develop independent sitting.
Article in Journal of neurophysiology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02246751 (Effect of Targeted Training on Sensorimotor Control of Trunk Posture), which is not on this map. Cited by 25 papers.
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Effect of Targeted Training on Sensorimotor Control of Trunk Posture
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25 citing papers in PubMed.
- Assessment of trunk movement and posture in spastic and dyskinetic cerebral palsy: A scoping review.Developmental medicine and child neurology · 2026Article
- Assessment of Segmental Postural Control During Reaching in Typically Developing Children Using a Single Inertial Measurement Unit.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- A developmental framework of interpersonal neural synchrony.Developmental review : DR · 2025Article
- Development and validation of the motor measures in the NIH Baby Toolbox®.Infant behavior & development · 2025Article
- Predicting Age of Independent Walking in Preterm Infants: A Longitudinal Study Using Neonatal Characteristics and Motor Development Variables.Annals of rehabilitation medicine · 2024Article
- Learning to Move in a Changing Body in a Changing World.Integrative and comparative biology · 2023Article
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- Quantifying States and Transitions of Emerging Postural Control for Children Not Yet Able to Sit Independently.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Factors Associating with the Segmental Postural Control during Sitting in Moderate-to-Late Preterm Infants via Longitudinal Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Segmental Assessment of Trunk Control in Moderate-to-Late Preterm Infants Related to Sitting Development.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Postural mechanisms in moderate-to-severe cerebral palsy.Journal of neurophysiology · 2021Article
- Relationship between segmental trunk control and gross motor development in typically developing infants aged from 4 to 12 months: a pilot study.BMC pediatrics · 2019Article
- Infants plan prehension while pivoting.Developmental psychobiology · 2019Article
- Motor Development: Embodied, Embedded, Enculturated, and Enabling.Annual review of psychology · 2019Review
- Parent handling of typical infants varies segmentally across development of postural control.Experimental brain research · 2018Article
- Influence of Sitting Positions and Level of Trunk Control During Reaching Movements in Late Preterm and Full-Term Infants.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2018Article
- Behavioral flexibility in learning to sit.Developmental psychobiology · 2017Article
- A Trunk Support System to Identify Posture Control Mechanisms in Populations Lacking Independent Sitting.IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society · 2017Article
- The development of motor behavior.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science · 2017Review
- Segmental trunk and head dynamics during frontal plane tilt stimuli in healthy sitting adults.Journal of biomechanics · 2016Article
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Abstract
The question of how infants attain upright sitting is at the core of understanding the development of most functional abilities. Our simple, practical method of securing the hips and different trunk segments while evaluating the infant's ability to vertically align and stabilize the trunk in space contributes a useful method and new insights into the development of upright control. Previous studies have considered the trunk to develop as a single segment. The goal of the present study was to examine how postural control changes across multiple trunk segments during typical development (TD) of sitting balance. For this purpose, electromyography (EMG) and kinematic data were collected at four levels of trunk support (axillae, midribs, waist, hips), in a longitudinal study of eight TD infants (3-9 mo of age). We found that developmental changes in stability were specific to the region of the trunk being investigated, changes in antagonistic muscle activity differed for the anterior-posterior versus the medial-lateral axis, and the relationship between muscle activation and movement changed from erratic attempts to gain upright position to anticipatory graded responses as infants developed upright control through a four-stage behavioral process. This information can be used by researchers to further refine hypotheses regarding this developmental process and by clinicians who wish to develop and test more specific treatment programs for children with postural dysfunction.
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