Effect of Contralateral Condition during Bimanual Pinch Force Control

Kazumi Critchley, Toshiyuki Kurihara, Tadao Isaka

2013

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the interaction of different control of the opposite side during bimanual finger pinch force output. Thirty two young adults (20.5±2.0y) participated in this study. Participants were requested to control their pinch forces at 10%MVF with visual feedback. Participants were asked to turn off their force output to zero (0%MVF) if visual feedback disappeared, and maintain their force output at 10%MVF when it’s appeared. There are 4 different force producing types: increase force output from 0 to 10%MVF (UP), decrease force output from 10 to 0%MVF (DOWN), keep maintaining 10%MVF (KEEP) and waiting at 0%MVF force output level (WAIT). The error trial was defined as when UP side of the hands’ force output exceeded 10.6%MVF. We calculated the error ratio as the number of error trials per total numbers of trial. The number of error ratio was the fewest on UP&UP, total 25/198 (Left: 17/96 Right: 8/96), followed by KEEP&UP total 52/192 (Left: 28/96, Right: 24/96) and WAIT&UP total 64/191 (Left: 40/96, Right: 24/95). Most mistakable condition was DOWN&UP, total 81/192 (Left: 50/96, Right: 31/96). The overshoot error ratio in right hand was lower than that of left hand.

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Critchley K., Kurihara T. and Isaka T. (2013). Effect of Contralateral Condition during Bimanual Pinch Force Control . In - icSPORTS, ISBN , pages 0-0


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author={Kazumi Critchley and Toshiyuki Kurihara and Tadao Isaka},
title={Effect of Contralateral Condition during Bimanual Pinch Force Control},
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year={2013},
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TI - Effect of Contralateral Condition during Bimanual Pinch Force Control
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AU - Critchley K.
AU - Kurihara T.
AU - Isaka T.
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