ArticleExperimental brain research2017
The effects of constraining vision and eye movements on whole-body coordination during standing turns.
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- Biological sex-related differences in whole-body coordination during standing turns in healthy young adults.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- An investigation of the contribution of different turn speeds during standing turns in individuals with and without Parkinson's disease.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Acute unilateral vestibular neuritis contributes to alterations in vestibular function modulating circumvention around obstacles: A pilot study suggesting a role for vestibular signals in the spatial perception of orientation during circumvention.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2022Article
- The Effect of Different Turn Speeds on Whole-Body Coordination in Younger and Older Healthy Adults.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Can We Accurately Measure Axial Segment Coordination during Turning Using Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs)?Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Effects of body turn on postural sway during symmetrical and asymmetrical standing.Experimental brain research · 2019Article
- Walking Along Curved Trajectories. Changes With Age and Parkinson's Disease. Hints to Rehabilitation.Frontiers in neurology · 2019Review
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Abstract
Turning the body towards a new direction is normally achieved via a top-down synergy whereby gaze (eye direction in space) leads the upper body segments, which in turn lead the feet. These anticipatory eye movements are observable even in darkness and constraining the initial eye movements modifies the stereotyped top-down reorientation sequence. Our aim was to elucidate the relative contributions of vision and eye movements to whole-body coordination during large standing turns by observing the effects of separately removing visual information or suppressing eye movements throughout the turn. We predicted that constraining eye movements would modify the steering synergy, whereas removing vision would have little effect. We found that preventing eye movements modified both timing and spatial characteristics of axial segment and feet rotation. When gaze was fixed, gait initiation, but not axial segment rotation, was delayed in comparison to both full vision and no vision turns. When eye movements were prevented, the predictable relationship between the extent head rotation led the body and peak head angular velocity was abolished suggesting that anticipatory head movements normally subserve gaze behaviour. In addition, stepping frequency significantly reduced during the gaze fixation condition but not during the no-vision condition, suggesting that oculomotor control is linked to stepping behaviour.
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