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Reaching to inhibit a prepotent response: A wearable 3-axis accelerometer kinematic analysis
The present work explores the distinctive contribution of motor planning and control to human reaching movements. In particular, the movements were triggered by the selection of a prepotent response (Dominant) or, instead, by the inhibition of the prepotent response, which required the selection of...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8281986/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34265002 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254514 |
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author | Angeli, Alessia Valori, Irene Farroni, Teresa Marfia, Gustavo |
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description | The present work explores the distinctive contribution of motor planning and control to human reaching movements. In particular, the movements were triggered by the selection of a prepotent response (Dominant) or, instead, by the inhibition of the prepotent response, which required the selection of an alternative one (Non-dominant). To this end, we adapted a Go/No-Go task to investigate both the dominant and non-dominant movements of a cohort of 19 adults, utilizing kinematic measures to discriminate between the planning and control components of the two actions. In this experiment, a low-cost, easy to use, 3-axis wrist-worn accelerometer was put to good use to obtain raw acceleration data and to compute and break down its velocity components. The values obtained with this task indicate that with the inhibition of a prepotent response, the selection and execution of the alternative one yields both a longer reaction time and movement duration. Moreover, the peak velocity occurred later in time in the non-dominant response with respect to the dominant response, revealing that participants tended to indulge more in motor planning than in adjusting their movement along the way. Finally, comparing such results to the findings obtained by other means in the literature, we discuss the feasibility of an accelerometer-based analysis to disentangle distinctive cognitive mechanisms of human movements. |
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spelling | pubmed-82819862021-07-28 Reaching to inhibit a prepotent response: A wearable 3-axis accelerometer kinematic analysis Angeli, Alessia Valori, Irene Farroni, Teresa Marfia, Gustavo PLoS One Research Article The present work explores the distinctive contribution of motor planning and control to human reaching movements. In particular, the movements were triggered by the selection of a prepotent response (Dominant) or, instead, by the inhibition of the prepotent response, which required the selection of an alternative one (Non-dominant). To this end, we adapted a Go/No-Go task to investigate both the dominant and non-dominant movements of a cohort of 19 adults, utilizing kinematic measures to discriminate between the planning and control components of the two actions. In this experiment, a low-cost, easy to use, 3-axis wrist-worn accelerometer was put to good use to obtain raw acceleration data and to compute and break down its velocity components. The values obtained with this task indicate that with the inhibition of a prepotent response, the selection and execution of the alternative one yields both a longer reaction time and movement duration. Moreover, the peak velocity occurred later in time in the non-dominant response with respect to the dominant response, revealing that participants tended to indulge more in motor planning than in adjusting their movement along the way. Finally, comparing such results to the findings obtained by other means in the literature, we discuss the feasibility of an accelerometer-based analysis to disentangle distinctive cognitive mechanisms of human movements. Public Library of Science 2021-07-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8281986/ /pubmed/34265002 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254514 Text en © 2021 Angeli et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Angeli, Alessia Valori, Irene Farroni, Teresa Marfia, Gustavo Reaching to inhibit a prepotent response: A wearable 3-axis accelerometer kinematic analysis |
title | Reaching to inhibit a prepotent response: A wearable 3-axis accelerometer kinematic analysis |
title_full | Reaching to inhibit a prepotent response: A wearable 3-axis accelerometer kinematic analysis |
title_fullStr | Reaching to inhibit a prepotent response: A wearable 3-axis accelerometer kinematic analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | Reaching to inhibit a prepotent response: A wearable 3-axis accelerometer kinematic analysis |
title_short | Reaching to inhibit a prepotent response: A wearable 3-axis accelerometer kinematic analysis |
title_sort | reaching to inhibit a prepotent response: a wearable 3-axis accelerometer kinematic analysis |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8281986/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34265002 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254514 |
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