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The Role Of An Auditory Cue In Generating Anticipatory Postural Adjustments In Response To An External Perturbation, Huaqing Liang, Tippawan Kaewmanee, Alexander S. Aruin
The Role Of An Auditory Cue In Generating Anticipatory Postural Adjustments In Response To An External Perturbation, Huaqing Liang, Tippawan Kaewmanee, Alexander S. Aruin
Physical Therapy Faculty Research
Anticipatory postural adjustments (APAs) are usually generated to minimize the potential postural disturbance induced by predictable external perturbations. Visual information about a perturbation is important for the generation of APAs, but whether people can rely on auditory information to generate APAs is unknown. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of an auditory cue in generating APAs when visual information is not available. Fifteen young adults participated in the study. They received external perturbations a) with visual information but no auditory information available, b) without neither visual nor auditory information, c) with both visual and auditory information …