Bilateral phase entrainment by movement-elicited afference contributes equally to the stability of in-phase and antiphase coordination

Ridderikhoff, Arne; Peper, C. E.; Beek, Peter J.

doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2006.01.026

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“…In particular, three forms of interlimb interactions can be dissociated based on the dependence on afferent, sensory information and the intention to execute a specific pattern (see Table 1). First, movement planning reflects interaction processes related to feedforward timing of the efferent signals that specify & Beek, 2006;Serrien, Li, Steyvers, Debaere, & Swinnen, 2001). Planning, correction, and reflex interactions can be assessed by comparing specific tasks in which the interactions are present to a different extent, as demonstrated by .…”

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“…This differential improvement of IP and AP was predicted for planning and correction interactions only, because these interlimb interactions are assumed to involve interhemispheric communication and both interactions contribute to the differential stability of IP and AP coordination (de Boer et al, 2011;. Potential age-related changes in reflex interactions were expected to be equally strong for IP and AP (Ridderikhoff, Peper, et al, 2006). Regarding spatial coupling, performance in the drawing task was expected to increase in all conditions because children typically become more skilled in drawing with age.…”

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Development of Temporal and Spatial Bimanual Coordination During Childhood

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Peper²,

Beek³

2012

Motor Control

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Developmental changes in bimanual coordination were examined in four age groups: 6/7, 10/11, 14/15 years, and young adults. Temporal coupling was assessed through the stabilizing contributions of interlimb interactions related to planning, error correction, and reflexes during rhythmic wrist movements, by comparing various unimanual and bimanual tasks involving passive and active movements. Spatial coupling was assessed via bimanual line-circle drawing. With increasing age, temporal stability improved. Relative contributions of planning and reflex interactions to the achieved stability did not change, whereas error correction improved. In-phase and antiphase coordination developed at similar rates; implications of this result were discussed in terms of mirror-activity inhibition. Overall spatial drawing performance (circularity, variability, smoothness) improved with age, and spatial interference was smaller in adults than children. Whereas temporal coupling increased from 6/7 years to adulthood, spatial coupling changed mainly after 14/15 years. This difference in the development of temporal and spatial coupling corresponds to the anterior-posterior direction of corpus callosum myelination as reported in the literature.

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Development of Temporal and Spatial Bimanual Coordination During Childhood

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Beek³

2012

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“…This conceptual framework is motivated and described in detail elsewhere (Ridderikhoff et al 2005b). In previous studies we found that the stability difference between in-phase and antiphase coordination depended mainly on the integrated timing of the feedforward control signals (Ridderikhoff et al 2005b), and that phase entrainment by contralateral afference did not affect this difference (Ridderikhoff et al 2005b, 2006). As regards the second afference-based source of interlimb interactions, timing corrections based on the perceived relative phase, a more complex picture emerged, which motivated the present study as discussed in the following paragraphs.…”

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“…Thus, the study of kinesthetic tracking indicated that afference-based interlimb interactions may contribute to the stability difference between in-phase and antiphase coordination. In terms of the aforementioned (afference-based) sources of interlimb interaction these pattern-related stability differences should be attributed to corrections based on the perceived error in the relative phase, because phase entrainment by contralateral afference has been found to stabilize in-phase and antiphase coordination in equal measure (Ridderikhoff et al 2005b; Ridderikhoff et al 2006). …”

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“…In contrast, if motor-driven movements were used to induce phase entrainment by contralateral afference (i.e., when one limb was moved passively, but no coordination between the limbs was required), such activation patterns were not observed (Ridderikhoff et al 2005b, 2006). Thus, the spontaneously adopted tendency of subjects to activate their muscles as if they were moving along with the motor-driven movement appeared directly related to the requirement of achieving a particular coordination pattern between the limbs.…”

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Error correction in bimanual coordination benefits from bilateral muscle activity: evidence from kinesthetic tracking

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Although previous studies indicated that the stability properties of interlimb coordination largely result from the integrated timing of efferent signals to both limbs, they also depend on afference-based interactions. In the present study, we examined contributions of afferencebased error corrections to rhythmic bimanual coordination using a kinesthetic tracking task. Furthermore, since we found in previous research that subjects activated their muscles in the tracked (motor-driven) arm, we examined the functional significance of this activation to gain more insight into the processes underlying this phenomenon. To these aims, twelve subjects coordinated active movements of the right hand with motor-driven oscillatory movements of the left hand in two coordinative patterns: in-phase (relative phase 0°) and antiphase (relative phase 180°). They were either instructed to activate the muscles in the motor-driven arm as if moving along with the motor (active condition), or to keep these muscles as relaxed as possible (relaxed condition). We found that error corrections were more effective in in-phase than in antiphase coordination, resulting in more adequate adjustments of cycle durations to compensate for timing errors detected at the start of each cycle. In addition, error corrections were generally more pronounced in the active than in the relaxed condition. This activity-related difference was attributed to the associated bilateral neural control signals (as estimated using electromyography), which provided an additional reference (in terms of expected sensory consequences) for afferencebased error corrections. An intimate relation was revealed between the (integrated) motor commands to both limbs and the processing of afferent feedback.

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Intended and unintended (sensory‐)motor coupling between the affected and unaffected upper limb in complex regional pain syndrome

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Peper

Marinus

et al. 2015

European Journal of Pain

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Impaired motor control of the affected limb interfered with bimanual coordination, in particular for tasks involving voluntary (intended) as opposed to automatic (unintended) interlimb coupling. Our findings suggest inappropriate functioning of higher order centres involved in motor control of the affected limb, probably due to pain-related processes and impaired processing of proprioceptive information. Motor function of the affected limb may benefit from intended synchronization with movements of the unaffected contralateral limb, suggesting that bilateral training may be useful in patients with unilateral CRPS.

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Bilateral phase entrainment by movement-elicited afference contributes equally to the stability of in-phase and antiphase coordination

Cited by 23 publications

References 15 publications

Development of Temporal and Spatial Bimanual Coordination During Childhood

Development of Temporal and Spatial Bimanual Coordination During Childhood

Error correction in bimanual coordination benefits from bilateral muscle activity: evidence from kinesthetic tracking

Intended and unintended (sensory‐)motor coupling between the affected and unaffected upper limb in complex regional pain syndrome

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