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Article Dans Une Revue Human Movement Science Année : 2002

Postural coordination in looking and tracking tasks

Benoit G. Bardy
Thomas A. Stoffregen
  • Fonction : Auteur
Reinoud J. Bootsma

Résumé

Participants stood in a moving room and looked at a target that was attached to the front wall of the room. They were instructed either to look at the target or to track it, that is, to move so as to maintain a constant distance between the target and their head. Previous research (e.g, Bardy, Oullier, Bootsma, & Stoffregen, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2002) has documented stable modes of coordination of the hip and ankle joints that emerge during the tracking task. In the present study our main goal was to determine the effects of task variation (tracking versus looking) on these postural coordination modes. Within trials, we varied the frequency of room motion between 0.10 and 0.75 Hz. The results revealed that in both the tracking and looking tasks, posture was characterized by the emergence of in-phase and anti-phase modes, although the modes were more prominent in the tracking task. For both tasks the coordination mode adopted depended on the frequency of motion of the moving room. Coupling between motion of the room and motion of the head was stronger in the tracking task than in the looking task. Overall, the dynamics of hip-ankle coordination were qualitatively similar during the looking and tracking tasks. This similarity has consequences for the development of a general theory of the visual regulation of stance. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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hal-01441377 , version 1 (19-01-2017)

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Olivier Oullier, Benoit G. Bardy, Thomas A. Stoffregen, Reinoud J. Bootsma. Postural coordination in looking and tracking tasks. Human Movement Science, 2002, 21 (2), pp.147-167. ⟨10.1016/S0167-9457(02)00093-3⟩. ⟨hal-01441377⟩

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