THE ORGANIZATION OF MOTOR SYNERGIES IN ONE-PERSON AND TWO-PERSON MULTI-FINGER FORCE PRODUCTION TASKS

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dc.contributor.advisorShim, Jae Ken_US
dc.contributor.authorChristensen, Kelsey Annen_US
dc.contributor.departmentKinesiologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-22T05:47:14Z
dc.date.available2017-06-22T05:47:14Z
dc.date.issued2017en_US
dc.description.abstractHumans perform motor tasks every day, both individually and with others. Performing motor tasks involves the organization of motor synergies, task-specific groupings of individual motor effectors that are temporarily constrained to act as a single unit and whose total combined output ensures stability of the overall task performance. Both intra- and inter-personal motor synergies have been found to exist in one-person and two-person motor tasks, respectively. Not as clear, however, is whether separate synergies can exist simultaneously on multiple levels of control within a given task. The purpose of the current study is to investigate the organization of force-stabilizing motor synergies during one-person and two-person finger-force production tasks using the Uncontrolled Manifold Analysis. We expect to find both intra- and inter-personal motor synergies, an increase in synergy strength as tasks require more motor effectors, but the lack of simultaneously-occurring motor synergies on multiple levels of control within the given tasks.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M25867
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/19328
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledKinesiologyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledNeurosciencesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFinger force productionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledJoint Actionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMotor Controlen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMotor Synergyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPrinciple of Abundanceen_US
dc.titleTHE ORGANIZATION OF MOTOR SYNERGIES IN ONE-PERSON AND TWO-PERSON MULTI-FINGER FORCE PRODUCTION TASKSen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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