Scopolamine increases prehensile force during object manipulation by reducing palmar sweating and decreasing skin friction

Experimental Brain Research
A M SmithD St-Amour

Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine whether relatively long-term changes in skin friction induced by a pharmacological blockade of sweat excretion would alter the grip forces applied to objects of a variety of different surface textures and frictions. Five men and three women were asked to lift the vertically mounted armature of a linear motor between the thumb and index finger and to hold it against an opposing force for 2 s. A 1.0-kHz tone indicated to the subject that the manipulandum had been correctly positioned between the upper and lower position limits. The linear motor generated a 2.5-N force tangential to the skin surface simulating an object weighing approximately 250 g. Three different polyamide plastic surfaces (either smooth or etched with 1.0 mm high Braille beads evenly spaced at 2- or 3-mm intervals) contacted the fingers in these experiments. Subjects lifted and held in a precision grip one of the three surfaces for blocks of ten consecutive trials, but the order of presentation of the three different textures was varied to offset the effect of expectancy. On a second block of ten trials the subjects were requested to release the object slowly to measure the ratio of the grip force normal to the grasped sur...Continue Reading

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