An involuntary muscular response induced by perceived visual errors in hand position

David W. Franklin, Udell So, Rieko Osu, Mitsuo Kawato

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Abstract

The visually induced corrective motor responses of hand position during reaching movements were investigated. Subjects performed reaching movements on a robotic manipulandum where the hand position was presented to the subjects by means of a projected display. On random reaching trials the projected hand position was perturbed relative to the actual hand position while the hand was constrained to the straight line to the target. Electromyographic activity of eight arm muscles were collected. A corrective muscular response starting at 150 ms from the onset of the visual perturbation was found. This response was found to be reflexive in nature and not suppressed by prior instruction. A second study found that the reflexive response was not modified by changes in the background muscle activity level or by the size of the perturbation. The results suggest that the visual system elicits simple motor reflexes in response to visual errors from the expected hand position.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNeural Information Processing - 14th International Conference, ICONIP 2007, Revised Selected Papers
Pages1012-1020
Number of pages9
EditionPART 1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event14th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2007 - Kitakyushu, Japan
Duration: 13 Nov 200716 Nov 2007

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 1
Volume4984 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference14th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2007
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityKitakyushu
Period13/11/0716/11/07

Keywords

  • Corrective response
  • Electromyography
  • Hand movements
  • Motor control
  • On-line control
  • Reaching movements
  • Reflex
  • Vision

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