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Integrated control of hand transport and orientation during prehension movements.

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:At a descriptive level, prehension movements can be partitioned into three components ensuring, respectively, the transport of the arm to the vicinity of the target, the orientation of the hand according to object tilt, and the grasp itself. Several authors have suggested that this analytic description may be an operational principle for the organization of the motor system. This hypothesis, called "visuomotor channels hypothesis," is in particular supported by experiments showing a parallelism between the reach and grasp components of prehension movements. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether or not the generalization of the visuomotor channels hypothesis, from its initial form, restricted to the grasp and transport components, to its actual form, including the reach orientation and grasp components, may be well founded. Six subjects were required to reach and grasp cylindrical objects presented at a given location, with different orientations. During the movements, object orientation was either kept constant (unperturbed trials) or modified at movement onset (perturbed trials). Results showed that both wrist path (sequence of positions that the hand follows in space), and wrist trajectory (time sequence of the successive positions of the hand) were strongly affected by object orientation and by the occurrence of perturbations. These observations suggested strongly that arm transport and hand orientation were neither planned nor controlled independently. The significant linear regressions observed, with respect to the time, between arm displacement (integral of the magnitude of the velocity vector) and forearm rotation also supported this view. Interestingly, hand orientation was not implemented at only the distal level, demonstrating that all the redundant degrees of freedom available were used by the motor system to achieve the task. The final configuration reached by the arm was very stable for a given final orientation of the object to grasp. In particular, when object tilt was suddenly modified at movement onset, the correction brought the upper limb into the same posture as that obtained when the object was initially presented along the final orientation reached after perturbation. Taken together, the results described in the present study suggest that arm transport and hand orientation do not constitute independent visuomotor channels. They also further suggest that prehension movements are programmed, from an initial configuration, to reach smoothly a final posture that corresponds to a given "location and orientation" as a whole.

journal_name

Exp Brain Res

journal_title

Experimental brain research

authors

Desmurget M,Prablanc C,Arzi M,Rossetti Y,Paulignan Y,Urquizar C

doi

10.1007/BF00228557

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1996-07-01 00:00:00

pages

265-78

issue

eissn

0014-4819

issn

1432-1106

journal_volume

110

pub_type

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Integrated control of hand transport and orientation during prehension movements.