Dissociation of grip/load-force coupling during a bimanual manipulative assignment
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1Department of Neurology, Inselspital, Berne, Switzerland. debbie.serrien@insel.ch
Abstract:
The aim of the present study was to examine interlimb interactions of grasping forces during a bimanual manipulative assignment that required the execution of a drawer-opening task with the left hand and an object-holding task with the right hand. Compared with the unimanual performance, the grip/load-force ratio of the object-holding task was shifted towards that of the simultaneously executed drawer-opening task. This shows that force parameterization of the dynamic activity interacted with that of the static activity. That the increased force ratio only involved modification of grip force, while load force was held constant, indicates a disruption of the commonly observed co-variation of both forces during a manipulative action. These data are consistent with the notion that the coordinative constraint between grip and load force is a flexible parameter.
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