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Involvement of global coordinative structure in achieving the local pendulum swinging task
In the literature on inter-limb coordination, the coordination among ‘‘focal’’ body parts (i.e., the two limbs) directly engaged in a pendulum swinging task has been studied by immobilizing other body parts to reduce “noise,” while putting aside questions of how one maintains posture while performin...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8863259/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35192624 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262525 |
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author | Yagai, Yusuke Miura, Akito Mishima, Hiroyuki Furuyama, Nobuhiro |
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description | In the literature on inter-limb coordination, the coordination among ‘‘focal’’ body parts (i.e., the two limbs) directly engaged in a pendulum swinging task has been studied by immobilizing other body parts to reduce “noise,” while putting aside questions of how one maintains posture while performing the task. However, in practical performance of musical instruments, for example, performers must coordinate different body parts in sync with the music while maintaining the whole body’s balance. This study demonstrates the effectiveness and necessity of understanding inter-limb coordination in whole-body coordination. Participants were asked to move two pendulums either in sync or alternatively with metronome beeps under two conditions: immobile (fixed forearms) and mobile (forearms not fixed). The explorative analyses focused on whether and how coordinative structures emerged and whether the degree of task achievement differed according to the phase mode, frequency, and mobility conditions. The motion similarity and phase difference between different parts and the pendulums showed that task-specific coordinative structures emerged in both immobile and mobile conditions. In the in-phase mobile condition, the emergent coordinative structure may have improved task achievement, shown by the phase difference between the left and right pendulums. These findings suggest that the global coordinative structure is involved in achieving the local pendulum swinging task. |
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spelling | pubmed-88632592022-02-23 Involvement of global coordinative structure in achieving the local pendulum swinging task Yagai, Yusuke Miura, Akito Mishima, Hiroyuki Furuyama, Nobuhiro PLoS One Research Article In the literature on inter-limb coordination, the coordination among ‘‘focal’’ body parts (i.e., the two limbs) directly engaged in a pendulum swinging task has been studied by immobilizing other body parts to reduce “noise,” while putting aside questions of how one maintains posture while performing the task. However, in practical performance of musical instruments, for example, performers must coordinate different body parts in sync with the music while maintaining the whole body’s balance. This study demonstrates the effectiveness and necessity of understanding inter-limb coordination in whole-body coordination. Participants were asked to move two pendulums either in sync or alternatively with metronome beeps under two conditions: immobile (fixed forearms) and mobile (forearms not fixed). The explorative analyses focused on whether and how coordinative structures emerged and whether the degree of task achievement differed according to the phase mode, frequency, and mobility conditions. The motion similarity and phase difference between different parts and the pendulums showed that task-specific coordinative structures emerged in both immobile and mobile conditions. In the in-phase mobile condition, the emergent coordinative structure may have improved task achievement, shown by the phase difference between the left and right pendulums. These findings suggest that the global coordinative structure is involved in achieving the local pendulum swinging task. Public Library of Science 2022-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8863259/ /pubmed/35192624 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262525 Text en © 2022 Yagai 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 Yagai, Yusuke Miura, Akito Mishima, Hiroyuki Furuyama, Nobuhiro Involvement of global coordinative structure in achieving the local pendulum swinging task |
title | Involvement of global coordinative structure in achieving the local pendulum swinging task |
title_full | Involvement of global coordinative structure in achieving the local pendulum swinging task |
title_fullStr | Involvement of global coordinative structure in achieving the local pendulum swinging task |
title_full_unstemmed | Involvement of global coordinative structure in achieving the local pendulum swinging task |
title_short | Involvement of global coordinative structure in achieving the local pendulum swinging task |
title_sort | involvement of global coordinative structure in achieving the local pendulum swinging task |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8863259/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35192624 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262525 |
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