Motor control: In constant pursuit of optimality.

Ryan T Roemmich, Amy J Bastian

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Article in Current biology : CB, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in

2citing papers in PubMed

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

Infants and Adults Are Sensitive to the Costs of Upright Versus Non-Upright Locomotion.Developmental science · 2026
Article
Ground reaction forces better than center of pressure differentiate postural control between young female volleyball players and untrained peers.Scientific reports · 2024
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

Comment on
General variability leads to specific adaptation toward optimal movement policies.2022

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ryan T RoemmichHugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, 716 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.

Amy J BastianHugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, 716 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA; Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 725 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. Electronic address: bastian@kennedykrieger.org.

Funding

Human Locomotor Plasticity in Health and DiseaseR37NS090610 · NINDS · HUGO W. MOSER RES INST KENNEDY KRIEGER · PI BASTIAN, AMY J. · 2015 to 2020

$3.3M

NINDS NIH HHS R37 NS090610

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Humans learn through exploration. A new study suggests that this may be how we learn to save energy when we walk.

Indexed as

LearningPursuit, SmoothHumans

Identifiers

PMID35609542

DOI10.1016/j.cub.2022.03.058

PMCPMC10053727

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