Pub Date : 2024-12-23Print Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1123/mc.2024-0123
Hannah J Block, Kess L Folco, Reshma Babu, Manasi Wali, Bashir S Isa, Maner Wang
{"title":"Cross-Disciplinary Communication and Evolving Language: A Comment on Latash.","authors":"Hannah J Block, Kess L Folco, Reshma Babu, Manasi Wali, Bashir S Isa, Maner Wang","doi":"10.1123/mc.2024-0123","DOIUrl":"10.1123/mc.2024-0123","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49795,"journal":{"name":"Motor Control","volume":" ","pages":"108-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142883559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-23Print Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1123/mc.2024-0126
Bailey Uitz, Mathew Yarossi, Eugene Tunik
{"title":"Recognizing Context, Embracing Jargon, and Learning From Linguists: A Commentary on \"Useful and Useless Misnomers in Motor Control\".","authors":"Bailey Uitz, Mathew Yarossi, Eugene Tunik","doi":"10.1123/mc.2024-0126","DOIUrl":"10.1123/mc.2024-0126","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49795,"journal":{"name":"Motor Control","volume":" ","pages":"122-126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142883596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-23Print Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1123/mc.2024-0128
Raoul M Bongers, Vitor L S Profeta, Steven J Harrison
{"title":"An Ecological-Dynamical Perspective on Latash's Misnomers in Motor Control.","authors":"Raoul M Bongers, Vitor L S Profeta, Steven J Harrison","doi":"10.1123/mc.2024-0128","DOIUrl":"10.1123/mc.2024-0128","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49795,"journal":{"name":"Motor Control","volume":" ","pages":"112-117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142883556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-23Print Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1123/mc.2024-0127
Peter J Keir, Daanish M Mulla
{"title":"Reflecting on Emergent Behaviors, Synergies, Stiffness, and Redundancy From a Biomechanics Perspective.","authors":"Peter J Keir, Daanish M Mulla","doi":"10.1123/mc.2024-0127","DOIUrl":"10.1123/mc.2024-0127","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49795,"journal":{"name":"Motor Control","volume":" ","pages":"127-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142883599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Motor Control Needs to Build More Bridges Across Levels of Analysis.","authors":"Rajiv Ranganathan, Mei-Hua Lee, Chandramouli Krishnan","doi":"10.1123/mc.2024-0119","DOIUrl":"10.1123/mc.2024-0119","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49795,"journal":{"name":"Motor Control","volume":" ","pages":"99-103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142883592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-23Print Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1123/mc.2024-0125
Grace Niyo, Francisco J Valero-Cuevas
{"title":"A Commentary on Latash: \"Useful and Useless Misnomers in Motor Control\".","authors":"Grace Niyo, Francisco J Valero-Cuevas","doi":"10.1123/mc.2024-0125","DOIUrl":"10.1123/mc.2024-0125","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49795,"journal":{"name":"Motor Control","volume":" ","pages":"118-121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142883551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-23Print Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1123/mc.2024-0130
Mark L Latash
{"title":"Exactness as the Universal Currency of Research in Natural Science.","authors":"Mark L Latash","doi":"10.1123/mc.2024-0130","DOIUrl":"10.1123/mc.2024-0130","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49795,"journal":{"name":"Motor Control","volume":" ","pages":"131-141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142883588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-23Print Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1123/mc.2024-0122
Sasha Reschechtko, J Andrew Pruszynski
{"title":"Terms Are Tools in Biological Motor Control.","authors":"Sasha Reschechtko, J Andrew Pruszynski","doi":"10.1123/mc.2024-0122","DOIUrl":"10.1123/mc.2024-0122","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49795,"journal":{"name":"Motor Control","volume":" ","pages":"104-107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142883602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-20Print Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1123/mc.2024-0082
Mark L Latash
This article addresses the issue of using terms and concepts in motor control that are ill-defined, undefined, and/or imported from nonbiological fields. In many of such cases, the discourse turns nonscientific and unproductive. Some of such terms are potentially useful but need to be properly and exactly defined. Other terms seem to be misleading and nonfixable. There is also an intermediate group with terms that may or may not be useful if defined properly. The paper presents three examples per group: "reflex," "synergy," and "posture" versus "motor program," "efference copy," and "internal model" versus "muscle tone," "stiffness and impedance," and "redundancy." These terms are analyzed assuming that motor control is a branch of natural science, which must be analyzed using laws of nature, not a subfield of the control theory. In the discussion, we also accept the framework of the theory of movement control with spatial referent coordinates as the only example built on laws of nature with clearly formulated physical and physiological nature of the control parameters.
{"title":"Useful and Useless Misnomers in Motor Control.","authors":"Mark L Latash","doi":"10.1123/mc.2024-0082","DOIUrl":"10.1123/mc.2024-0082","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article addresses the issue of using terms and concepts in motor control that are ill-defined, undefined, and/or imported from nonbiological fields. In many of such cases, the discourse turns nonscientific and unproductive. Some of such terms are potentially useful but need to be properly and exactly defined. Other terms seem to be misleading and nonfixable. There is also an intermediate group with terms that may or may not be useful if defined properly. The paper presents three examples per group: \"reflex,\" \"synergy,\" and \"posture\" versus \"motor program,\" \"efference copy,\" and \"internal model\" versus \"muscle tone,\" \"stiffness and impedance,\" and \"redundancy.\" These terms are analyzed assuming that motor control is a branch of natural science, which must be analyzed using laws of nature, not a subfield of the control theory. In the discussion, we also accept the framework of the theory of movement control with spatial referent coordinates as the only example built on laws of nature with clearly formulated physical and physiological nature of the control parameters.</p>","PeriodicalId":49795,"journal":{"name":"Motor Control","volume":" ","pages":"69-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142873325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Danial Borooghani, Remy Casanova, Frank T J M Zaal, Reinoud J Bootsma
We develop a dynamics-based model of discrete movement for lateral manual interception capable of generating movements with realistic kinematics. For the present purposes, we focus on the situation of to-be-intercepted targets moving at constant speed along rectilinear trajectories oriented orthogonally with respect to the interception axis. The proposed phenomenological model is designed to capture the time evolution of empirically observed hand movements along the interception axis under different conditions of target arrival location and target speed-induced time pressure. Pattern formation dynamics combine a Duffing stiffness function, allowing for creating a fixed-point attractor at the perceived location of the target arrival on the interception axis, with a hybrid Rayleigh plus Van der Pol damping function. After parametrizing the model for required movement direction (left/right), amplitude, and duration, it adequately reproduces the (variations in) empirically observed kinematics with a single set of four coefficients for all conditions considered. The model is also demonstrated to inherently incorporate speed-accuracy trade-off characteristics.
{"title":"Toward an Operational Dynamical Model of Lateral Manual Interception Behavior.","authors":"Danial Borooghani, Remy Casanova, Frank T J M Zaal, Reinoud J Bootsma","doi":"10.1123/mc.2024-0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1123/mc.2024-0036","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We develop a dynamics-based model of discrete movement for lateral manual interception capable of generating movements with realistic kinematics. For the present purposes, we focus on the situation of to-be-intercepted targets moving at constant speed along rectilinear trajectories oriented orthogonally with respect to the interception axis. The proposed phenomenological model is designed to capture the time evolution of empirically observed hand movements along the interception axis under different conditions of target arrival location and target speed-induced time pressure. Pattern formation dynamics combine a Duffing stiffness function, allowing for creating a fixed-point attractor at the perceived location of the target arrival on the interception axis, with a hybrid Rayleigh plus Van der Pol damping function. After parametrizing the model for required movement direction (left/right), amplitude, and duration, it adequately reproduces the (variations in) empirically observed kinematics with a single set of four coefficients for all conditions considered. The model is also demonstrated to inherently incorporate speed-accuracy trade-off characteristics.</p>","PeriodicalId":49795,"journal":{"name":"Motor Control","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142683506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}