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An apparent contradiction: increasing variability to achieve greater precision?

Overview of attention for article published in Experimental Brain Research, October 2013
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Title
An apparent contradiction: increasing variability to achieve greater precision?
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Experimental Brain Research, October 2013
DOI 10.1007/s00221-013-3748-1
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Noah J. Rosenblatt, Christopher P. Hurt, Mark L. Latash, Mark D. Grabiner

Abstract

To understand the relationship between variability of foot placement in the frontal plane and stability of gait patterns, we explored how constraining mediolateral foot placement during walking affects the structure of kinematic variance in the lower-limb configuration space during the swing phase of gait. Ten young subjects walked under three conditions: (1) unconstrained (normal walking), (2) constrained (walking overground with visual guides for foot placement to achieve the measured unconstrained step width) and, (3) beam (walking on elevated beams spaced to achieve the measured unconstrained step width). The uncontrolled manifold analysis of the joint configuration variance was used to quantify two variance components, one that did not affect the mediolateral trajectory of the foot in the frontal plane ("good variance") and one that affected this trajectory ("bad variance"). Based on recent studies, we hypothesized that across conditions (1) the index of the synergy stabilizing the mediolateral trajectory of the foot (the normalized difference between the "good variance" and "bad variance") would systematically increase and (2) the changes in the synergy index would be associated with a disproportionate increase in the "good variance." Both hypotheses were confirmed. We conclude that an increase in the "good variance" component of the joint configuration variance may be an effective method of ensuring high stability of gait patterns during conditions requiring increased control of foot placement, particularly if a postural threat is present. Ultimately, designing interventions that encourage a larger amount of "good variance" may be a promising method of improving stability of gait patterns in populations such as older adults and neurological patients.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 2 2%
United States 1 <1%
Israel 1 <1%
Unknown 129 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 28 21%
Student > Master 24 18%
Researcher 20 15%
Professor 9 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 5%
Other 24 18%
Unknown 21 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Sports and Recreations 26 20%
Engineering 17 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 15 11%
Neuroscience 12 9%
Psychology 11 8%
Other 23 17%
Unknown 29 22%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 January 2014.
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#8,257,264
of 25,559,053 outputs
Outputs from Experimental Brain Research
#903
of 3,410 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#73,100
of 225,820 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Experimental Brain Research
#13
of 39 outputs
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