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  • Motor control
  • Human movement science
  • Neuroscience

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  • Understanding the neural mechanisms of multi-finger coordination is crucial for rehabilitation and understanding motor disorders.
  • Previous research suggests the brain utilizes specific strategies to ensure stable force production despite variations in individual finger contributions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate task-specific stability during accurate multifinger force production with varying numbers of instructed fingers.
  • To examine the role of the uncontrolled manifold (UCM) in maintaining motor performance under perturbation.

Main Methods:

  • Subjects performed steady-state isometric force production tasks.
  • Transient lifting-and-lowering perturbations were applied to the index finger.
  • Intertrial variance within the UCM and deviations caused by perturbations were analyzed.

Main Results:

  • Intertrial variance was larger within the UCM, indicating stability in task-irrelevant finger configurations.
  • Perturbations induced significant deviations in finger modes within the UCM, demonstrating motor equivalence.
  • The number of instructed fingers did not significantly affect the observed stability or perturbation responses.

Conclusions:

  • The findings support the UCM hypothesis, suggesting that the central nervous system stabilizes the task-relevant force output by allowing variability in task-irrelevant finger synergies.
  • Motor equivalence was observed, where the system compensated for perturbations by adjusting finger configurations within the UCM.
  • All tasks were effectively treated as four-finger tasks, with varying degrees of involvement from task-specific and non-task fingers, highlighting a unified control strategy.