Independent control of limb force underlies stability during voluntary head movements in standing humans

Authors

Paul J. Stapley, McGill UniversityFollow
Alicia Hilderley, McGill University
Julia A. Leonard, McGill University

RIS ID

38070

Publication Details

Stapley, P. J., Hilderley, A. & Leonard, J. A. (2010). Independent control of limb force underlies stability during voluntary head movements in standing humans. Neural Control of Movement 20th Annual Meeting (pp. 116-117). Society for the Neural Control of Movement.

Abstract

Postural stability during voluntary head movements is maintained through the integration of vestibular and neck afferent inputs. These inputs combine to accurately estimate trunk position in space, relative to a turning head. In animals, a loss of vestibular information leads to an active destabilization of balance as neck afferent information is interpreted as a movement of the trunk under a stable head (Stapley et al. 2006).