ArticleRoyal Society open science2022
Motor control beyond reach-how humans hit a target with a whip.
Article in Royal Society open science, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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- Exploring motor skill acquisition in bimanual coordination: insights from navigating a novel maze task.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Memory, perceptual, and motor costs affect the strength of categorical encoding during motor learning of object properties.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Body Mechanics, Optimality, and Sensory Feedback in the Human Control of Complex Objects.Neural computation · 2023Article
- Motor control beyond reach-how humans hit a target with a whip.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- A 3D-Printed Device for Unconstrained Grip Force Measurements: Design and Application in a Human Experiment.IEEE transactions on hapticsArticle
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Abstract
Humans are strikingly adept at manipulating complex objects, from tying shoelaces to cracking a bullwhip. These motor skills have highly nonlinear interactive dynamics that defy reduction into parts. Yet, despite advances in data recording and processing, experiments in motor neuroscience still prioritize experimental reduction over realistic complexity. This study embraced the fully unconstrained behaviour of hitting a target with a 1.6-m bullwhip, both in rhythmic and discrete fashion. Adopting an object-centered approach to test the hypothesis that skilled movement simplifies the whip dynamics, the whip's evolution was characterized in relation to performance error and hand speed. Despite widely differing individual strategies, both discrete and rhythmic styles featured a cascade-like unfolding of the whip. Whip extension and orientation at peak hand speed predicted performance error, at least in the rhythmic style, suggesting that humans accomplished the task by setting initial conditions. These insights may inform further studies on human and robot control of complex objects.
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