Adaptation to destabilizing dynamics by means of muscle cocontraction

Experimental Brain Research
Theodore E Milner

Abstract

Adaptive control of wrist mechanics was investigated by means of destabilizing dynamics created by a torque motor. Subjects performed a 20 degrees movement to a 3 degrees target under the constraint that no motion should occur outside of the target zone once 800 ms had elapsed from movement onset. This constraint served as the minimum acceptable level of postural stability. The ability of subjects to modify their muscle activation patterns in order to successfully achieve this stability was investigated by creating three types of destabilizing dynamics with markedly different features: negative stiffness, negative damping, and square-wave vibration. Subjects performed sets of trials with the first type of destabilizing dynamics and were then required to adapt to the second and third. The adaptive response was quantified in terms of the rms electromyographic (EMG) activity recorded during various phases of the task. Surface EMG activity was recorded from three muscles contributing to wrist flexion and three muscles contributing to wrist extension. With negative stiffness, a significant compensatory increase in cocontraction of wrist flexor and extensor muscles was observed for slow movements, but there was little change in the m...Continue Reading

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