ArticleExperimental brain research2021
Position sense at the human forearm over a range of elbow angles.
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- The effect of age and proprioceptive illusion susceptibility on gait.Physiology & behavior · 2024Article
- The contribution of muscle spindles to position sense measured with three different methods.Experimental brain research · 2023Article
- Proprioceptive disturbances in weightlessness revisited.NPJ microgravity · 2023Review
- Submaximal fatiguing eccentric contractions of knee flexors alter leg extrapersonal representation.Heliyon · 2023Article
- A reassessment of the role of joint receptors in human position sense.Experimental brain research · 2023Review
- Substitutive proprioception feedback of a prosthetic wrist by electrotactile stimulation.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Neck Muscle Vibration Alters Upper Limb Proprioception as Demonstrated by Changes in Accuracy and Precision during an Elbow Repositioning Task.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- MS and GTO proprioceptor subtypes in the molecular genetic era: Opportunities for new advances and perspectives.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2022Review
- Two senses of human limb position: methods of measurement and roles in proprioception.Experimental brain research · 2021Review
- Do interoception and attending to the upper limbs affect body ownership and body representation in the grasp illusion?PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
Ten adult participants carried out two experiments on position sense at the forearm, one a two-arm matching task, the other a one-arm pointing task. For matching, both forearms were strapped to paddles which moved in the vertical plane between 0° and 90°. At the start of each trial, the arms were conditioned with a contraction sequence to control for the thixotropic property of muscle and muscle spindles. In the matching task, the blindfolded participant moved their indicator arm from 45° into flexion or extension to match the position of the reference arm placed at one of five test angles, between 5° and 85°. In the pointing task, only the reference arm was strapped to a paddle and conditioned. Participants indicated the position of the arm, hidden by a screen, by moving a pointer paddle or choosing one of a series of trajectory lines drawn on the screen. In matching, where test angles were in the direction of flexion of 45°, errors were small; in the direction of extension larger errors were made, up to 8° into flexion. In pointing trials, except at the most extended position, all errors lay in the direction of extension. It is argued that position sense by matching is concerned with the relative positions of the body and its parts, position sense by pointing gives information about position of the body and limbs in external space.
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