Toward a New Theory of Motor Synergies

This week on Journal Club session Bente Riegler will talk about a paper "Toward a New Theory of Motor Synergies".

Driven by recent empirical studies, we offer a new understanding of the degrees of freedom problem, and propose a refined concept of synergy as a neural organization that ensures a one-to-many mapping of variables providing for both stability of important performance variables and flexibility of motor patterns to deal with possible perturbations and/or secondary tasks. Empirical evidence is reviewed, including a discussion of the operationalization of stability/flexibility through the method of the uncontrolled manifold. We show how this concept establishes links between the various accounts for how movement is organized in redundant effector systems.


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Date: 2021/06/18
Time: 14:00
Location: online

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