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Multiple frames of reference for bimanual co-ordination

Author: Herbert Heuer

Published in: Experimental Brain Research | Issue 3/2006

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Different movement characteristics can be governed by different frames of reference. The present study serves to identify the frames of reference, which govern intermanual interactions with respect to movement directions. Previous studies had shown that intermanual interactions are adjusted to task requirements during motor preparation: for parallel movements directional coupling becomes parallel, and for symmetric movements it becomes symmetric. The timed-response procedure allows to trace these adjustments as they are reflected in the intermanual correlations between left-hand and right-hand directions. In the present study the adjustments remained unchanged when all target directions were rotated laterally, indicating a critical role of hand-centered frames of reference. The additional role of a body-centered frame of reference was indicated by the finding of overall higher intermanual correlations with the rotated target configurations. Intermanual interference at long preparation intervals was absent even when eccentricities in the body-centered frame of reference were different. These findings converge with results on the frames of reference that govern intermanual interactions with respect to movement amplitudes. They suggest a role of both body-centered and hand-centered frames of reference for the adjustments of intermanual interactions to task requirements, but of a hand-centered frame of reference only for the intermanual interference, which remains in spite of the adjustments.

Categorically symmetric movements are not necessarily symmetric in a strict sense. They are both lateral or both medial with respect to axes defined for both hands, but their eccentricities relative to these axes can be different. Similarly (categorically) parallel movements end in equivalent quadrants of co-ordinate systems defined for both hands, but their eccentricities again may be same or different. The designation of bimanual movement directions in terms of categories (symmetric versus parallel) and graded differences within categories (same and different eccentricities) is uncommon, but most likely it reflects some characteristics of the processing of target locations and the respective adjustment of intermanual interactions (cf. Heuer and Klein 2006a).

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Title: Multiple frames of reference for bimanual co-ordination
Author: Herbert Heuer
Publication date: 01-11-2006
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Experimental Brain Research / Issue 3/2006
Print ISSN: 0014-4819
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1106
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-006-0565-9

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