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  • Aging impacts neuro-musculo-skeletal systems and their interconnections.
  • Coordinated movements rely on integrated behavioral and muscular control.
  • Understanding age-related changes in motor control is crucial for maintaining functional independence.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how aging affects functional reorganizations within and between behavioral and muscular levels.
  • To compare motor control dynamics in older adults versus younger adults using a Fitts' task.
  • To identify age-related changes in muscular coordination patterns during task performance.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a unimanual reciprocal Fitts' task with varying target sizes to induce behavioral phase transitions.
  • Employed non-negative matrix factorization for muscular synergy extraction from electromyography signals.
  • Analyzed behavioral kinematics and muscular coordination patterns to detect phase transition signatures.

Main Results:

  • Older adults demonstrated behavioral phase transitions but lacked kinematic discontinuity seen in younger adults.
  • Muscular coordination in older adults showed increased variability and synergy reorganization, indicative of phase transition.
  • Age-related transitions occurred at lower task difficulty, and pattern reorganization persisted over a wider range of difficulties.

Conclusions:

  • Aging leads to consistent changes in motor coordination across behavioral and muscular levels.
  • Older adults exhibit a reduced and modified repertoire of muscular patterns.
  • Age-related motor control decline involves alterations in muscle coordination, not solely individual muscle function.