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ArticleCommunications biology2024

Learning to stand with sensorimotor delays generalizes across directions and from hand to leg effectors.

Brandon G Rasman, Jean-Sébastien Blouin, Amin M Nasrabadi, Remco van Woerkom, Maarten A Frens, Patrick A Forbes

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Article in Communications biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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6 authors.

Brandon G RasmanDepartment of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-8031-8320
Jean-Sébastien BlouinSchool of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Amin M NasrabadiSchool of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.ORCID 0009-0004-7221-9789
Remco van WoerkomDepartment of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Maarten A FrensDepartment of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Patrick A ForbesDepartment of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. p.forbes@erasmusmc.nl.ORCID 0000-0002-0230-9971

Funding

Gouvernement du Canada | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Conseil de Recherches en Sciences Naturelles et en Génie du Canada) RGPIN-2020-05438Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) 406.18.511Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) VI.Vidi.203.066
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Humans receive sensory information from the past, requiring the brain to overcome delays to perform daily motor skills such as standing upright. Because delays vary throughout the body and change over a lifetime, it would be advantageous to generalize learned control policies of balancing with delays across contexts. However, not all forms of learning generalize. Here, we use a robotic simulator to impose delays into human balance. When delays are imposed in one direction of standing, participants are initially unstable but relearn to balance by reducing the variability of their motor actions and transfer balance improvements to untrained directions. Upon returning to normal standing, aftereffects from learning are observed as small oscillations in control, yet they do not destabilize balance. Remarkably, when participants train to balance with delays using their hand, learning transfers to standing with the legs. Our findings establish that humans use experience to broadly update their neural control to balance with delays.

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PMID38553561
PMCPMC10980713

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