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Title: | THE SENSORIMOTOR CONTROL OF SEQUENTIAL FORCES: INVESTIGATIONS INTO VISUAL-SOMATOSENSORY FEEDBACK MODALITIES AND MODELS OF FORCE-TIMING INTERACTIONS |
Authors: | Therrien, Amanda S. |
Advisor: | Lyons, James |
Department: | Kinesiology |
Keywords: | Force production;Motor timing;Visual feedback;Somatosensation;Auditory feedback;Sensory reafference;Motor Control;Motor Control |
Publication Date: | Oct-2013 |
Abstract: | <p>Many daily motor tasks involve the precise control of both force level and motor timing. The neural mechanisms concurrently managing these movement parameters remain unclear, as the dominant focus of previous literature has been to examine each in isolation. As a result, little is understood regarding the contribution of various sensory modalities to force output and interval production in sequential motor tasks. This thesis uses a sequential force production task to investigate the roles of visual and somatosensory feedback in the timed control of force. In Chapter 2 we find that removal of visual force feedback resulted in specific force output errors, but leaves motor timing behavior relatively unaffected according to predictions of the two-level timing model by Wing and Kristofferson (1973). In Chapter 3, we show that force output errors exhibited in the absence of a visual reference may be related to the processing of reafferent somatosensation from self-generated force pulses. The results of Chapter 4 reveal evidence that force errors exhibited following visual feedback removal are consistent with a shift in the perceived magnitude of force output and that the direction of error may be determined by prior task constraints. In Chapter 5 we find evidence of effector-specificity in the processing of and compensation for reafferent somatosensation. Lastly, in Chapter 6 we find that the interplay between audition and somatosensation in the control of sound level by the vocal effectors resembles that which is observed between vision and somatosensation in the control of force by the distal effectors.</p> |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/13295 |
Identifier: | opendissertations/8114 9207 4553821 |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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