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Orderliness Of Visual Stimulus Motion Mediates Sensorimotor Coordination, Joshua L. Haworth, Nicholas Stergiou
Orderliness Of Visual Stimulus Motion Mediates Sensorimotor Coordination, Joshua L. Haworth, Nicholas Stergiou
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We explored the coupling of gaze and postural sway to the motion of a visual stimulus, to further understand sensorimotor coordination. Visual stimuli consisted of a horizontally oscillating red dot, moving with periodic (sine), chaotic, or aperiodic (brown noise) temporal structure. Cross Recurrence Quantification Analysis (cRQA) was used to investigate the coupling between each measured signal with the time series of the visual stimulus position. The cRQA parameter of percent determinism indicated similar strength of coupling of gaze with either periodic or chaotic motion structures, yet weaker coupling to aperiodic stimulus motion. The cRQA parameter of Maxline indicated a particular …
Infant Sitting Postural Control Appears Robust Across Changes In Surface Context, Elena Kokkoni, Joshua Haworth, Regina T. Harbourne, Nicholas Stergiou, Anastasia Kyvelidou
Infant Sitting Postural Control Appears Robust Across Changes In Surface Context, Elena Kokkoni, Joshua Haworth, Regina T. Harbourne, Nicholas Stergiou, Anastasia Kyvelidou
Journal Articles
Aim of the study: Independent sitting requires the control of the involved body segments over the base of support using information obtained from the three sensory systems (visual, vestibular, and somatosensory). The contribution of somatosensory information in infant sitting has not been explored. To address this gap, we altered the context of the sitting support surface and examined the infants’ immediate postural responses.
Materials and methods: Ten 7-month-old typically developing infants sat on compliant and firm surfaces in one session. Spatial, frequency, and temporal measures of postural control were obtained using center of pressure data.
Results Our results suggest that …