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SUMMARY:The mechanism of flexible bimanual coordination
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nThe ability to coordinate two hands/arms to accomplis
 h a variety of tasks\, from opening a bottle of wine to playing the piano\
 , is essential for our daily lives. In contrast to the control of single a
 rm movements\, the control of bimanual movements is still poorly understoo
 d. In my talk\, I will present two behavioural studies where we investigat
 ed how the movement of two arms is encoded in the controller of each arm d
 uring bimanual reaching movements.\nIn the first study\, we show that desi
 red movement directions for both arms are multiplicatively integrated in t
 he controller. Modelling work and additional experiments suggest that such
  multiplicative encoding may be the foundation of flexible bimanual coordi
 nation\, helping to create an arbitrary mapping between the desired moveme
 nt kinematics of both arms and the motor output of each arm. In the second
  study\, we demonstrated the asymmetry of this multiplicative encoding. We
  found that\, for right-handed subjects\, the controller for the left arm 
 encodes information about the right arm movement sharply. In contrast\, th
 e controller for the right arm encodes information about the left arm move
 ment weakly. Critically\, this leads to a hypothesis that the non-dominant
  arm is surprisingly more flexible than the dominant arm in adapting to ch
 anges in the other arm. Further modelling and experiments supported this h
 ypothesis. We suggest that such functional specialisation of the two arms 
 may help efficient bimanual coordination by facilitating effective role as
 signment to each arm.
URL:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/104237/the-mechanism-of-flexible-bima
 nual-coordination/
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