Thinking on your feet: Anticipatory foot placements in repeated bimanual object displacements
Effective handling of objects requires proper use of the hands. If the object handling is done while standing or walking, it also requires proper use of the feet. We asked how people position their feet to meet future and ongoing object-handling demands. In previous research on this topic, participa...
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| author | Aviad Ozana Frouke Hermens Ruud G.J. Meulenbroek David A. Rosenbaum |
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| description | Effective handling of objects requires proper use of the hands. If the object handling is done while standing or walking, it also requires proper use of the feet. We asked how people position their feet to meet future and ongoing object-handling demands. In previous research on this topic, participants walked to a table and picked up an object for a single displacement from one place to another. These studies shed light on sensitivity to kinematics but, strictly speaking, may not have revealed anything about sensitivity to dynamics. In the present study, we asked participants to walk to a table to move an object back and forth over different distances and at different rates. Prior to walking to the table, participants had full knowledge of what the task would be. By using a rhythmic rather than discrete object placement task, we could analyze participants' sensitivity to dynamics as well as kinematics. Consistent with our expectation that participants would tune their foot separations to demands related to dynamics, we found that stance width was wider for long than for short object displacements and was more pronounced for high displacement rates than for low displacement rates. Also consistent with our expectations about planning, these effects were evident as soon as participants reached the table. Our results add to the limited research on coordinated action of the hands and feet in purposeful object manipulation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d42068144a0f4bf6981fdc66377d06212023-12-09T06:04:03ZengElsevierActa Psychologica0001-69182023-11-01241104089Thinking on your feet: Anticipatory foot placements in repeated bimanual object displacementsAviad Ozana0Frouke Hermens1Ruud G.J. Meulenbroek2David A. Rosenbaum3Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, USA; Corresponding author.Department of Computer Science, Open University of the Netherlands, the NetherlandsDonders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Donders Centre for Cognition, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the NetherlandsDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, USAEffective handling of objects requires proper use of the hands. If the object handling is done while standing or walking, it also requires proper use of the feet. We asked how people position their feet to meet future and ongoing object-handling demands. In previous research on this topic, participants walked to a table and picked up an object for a single displacement from one place to another. These studies shed light on sensitivity to kinematics but, strictly speaking, may not have revealed anything about sensitivity to dynamics. In the present study, we asked participants to walk to a table to move an object back and forth over different distances and at different rates. Prior to walking to the table, participants had full knowledge of what the task would be. By using a rhythmic rather than discrete object placement task, we could analyze participants' sensitivity to dynamics as well as kinematics. Consistent with our expectation that participants would tune their foot separations to demands related to dynamics, we found that stance width was wider for long than for short object displacements and was more pronounced for high displacement rates than for low displacement rates. Also consistent with our expectations about planning, these effects were evident as soon as participants reached the table. Our results add to the limited research on coordinated action of the hands and feet in purposeful object manipulation.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691823002652BalanceDynamicsMotion analysisMotor controlObject manipulationPlanning |
| spellingShingle | Aviad Ozana Frouke Hermens Ruud G.J. Meulenbroek David A. Rosenbaum Thinking on your feet: Anticipatory foot placements in repeated bimanual object displacements Acta Psychologica Balance Dynamics Motion analysis Motor control Object manipulation Planning |
| title | Thinking on your feet: Anticipatory foot placements in repeated bimanual object displacements |
| title_full | Thinking on your feet: Anticipatory foot placements in repeated bimanual object displacements |
| title_fullStr | Thinking on your feet: Anticipatory foot placements in repeated bimanual object displacements |
| title_full_unstemmed | Thinking on your feet: Anticipatory foot placements in repeated bimanual object displacements |
| title_short | Thinking on your feet: Anticipatory foot placements in repeated bimanual object displacements |
| title_sort | thinking on your feet anticipatory foot placements in repeated bimanual object displacements |
| topic | Balance Dynamics Motion analysis Motor control Object manipulation Planning |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691823002652 |
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