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Changes In Muscle Control And Coordination In Novel Task Learning, Sangsoo Park
Changes In Muscle Control And Coordination In Novel Task Learning, Sangsoo Park
Doctoral Dissertations
Learning many daily life motor skills is critical for survival and the quality of living in humans. As children, we develop walking and running patterns to move the body from point A to B without falling, and we learn to grasp a wide variety of objects during activities of daily living. Motor skills can be properly performed by appropriate muscle activations which are controlled by the central nervous system. How does the central nervous system develop and fine-tune its control strategy to learn a new motor skill? The aim of this dissertation was to better understand how human participants alter …
Plantar Pressure, Cutaneous Sensation And Stochastic Resonance: An Examination Of Factors Influencing The Control And Perception Of Posture, Michael A. Busa
Plantar Pressure, Cutaneous Sensation And Stochastic Resonance: An Examination Of Factors Influencing The Control And Perception Of Posture, Michael A. Busa
Doctoral Dissertations
The goal of this dissertation was to understand how people control posture in the context of sensory loss. To do so we explored three potential influences on the detection of external information and how they relate to the control of posture and perception of body orientation: 1) does changing posture alter the forces under the foot, and do these changes impact the ability to detect external vibrations? 2) Does decreasing the temperature of the foot influence the ability to detect external vibrations, the perception of body orientation, and the control of posture? And 3) does stochastic resonance (SR) improve the …