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  • Biomechanics
  • Human Movement Science
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Visual guidance of gait is crucial for mobility.
  • Recent research suggests head and body movements are integral to visual exploration, beyond eye-tracking.
  • Understanding these coordinative patterns is key to explaining complex human locomotion.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess coordinative patterns of whole-body movement during gait with varying head movements.
  • To test the hypothesis that head-related movement patterns span across the entire body.
  • To investigate the link between head movements and distinct, body-wide movement patterns.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a treadmill walking protocol with diverse head movement stimuli (horizontal, vertical, mixed gaze shifts).
  • Employed Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to identify whole-body correlated movement patterns (Principal Movements; PMs).
  • Analyzed 37 higher-order PMs associated with head movement in 21 healthy young adults.

Main Results:

  • Identified 37 higher-order Principal Movements (PMs) associated with head movement.
  • Two specific PMs showed significant differences during trials with strong horizontal and sagittal head rotations.
  • These significant PMs represented distinct, whole-body movement patterns linked to exploratory head movements.

Conclusions:

  • Exploratory head movements during gait are associated with distinct, body-spanning movement patterns.
  • These whole-body movement patterns generated by visual exploration can have a destabilizing effect on gait.
  • Findings offer new insights into visual search research and have implications for fall and injury prevention.