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- Title
Rule for scaling shoulder rotation angles while walking through apertures.
- Authors
Higuchi, Takahiro; Seya, Yasuhiro; Imanaka, Kuniyasu
- Abstract
When an individual is trying to fit into a narrow aperture, the amplitude of shoulder rotations in the yaw dimension is well proportioned to the relative aperture width to body width (referred to as the critical ratio value). Based on this fact, it is generally considered that the central nervous system (CNS) determines the amplitudes of shoulder rotations in response to the ratio value. The present study was designed to determine whether the CNS follows another rule in which a minimal spatial margin is created at the aperture passage; this rule is beneficial particularly when spatial requirements for passage (i.e., the minimum passable width) become wider than the body with an external object.
- Publication
PloS one, 2012, Vol 7, Issue 10, pe48123
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0048123