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Analysis of Differences in Single-Joint Movement of Dominant and Non-Dominant Hands for Human-like Robotic Control

Publicated to:Sensors. 23 (23): 9443- - 2023-12-01 23(23), DOI: 10.3390/s23239443

Authors: Kim, Samyoung; Min, Kyuengbo; Kim, Yeongdae; Igarashi, Shigeyuki; Kim, Daeyoung; Kim, Hyeonseok; Lee, Jongho

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Japan Adv Inst Sci & Technol, Div Adv Sci & Technol, Nomi 9231292, Japan - Author
Kanagawa Inst Technol, Dept Clin Engn, Atsugi 2430292, Japan - Author
Komatsu Univ, Dept Clin Engn, Komatsu 9230961, Japan - Author
Komatsu Univ, Div Hlth Sci, Komatsu 9230961, Japan - Author
Tokyo Metropolitan Inst Med Sci, Dept Brain & Neurosci, Tokyo 1560057, Japan - Author
Univ Calif San Diego, Inst Neural Computat, Swartz Ctr Computat Neurosci, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA - Author
Univ Colorado, Dept Comp Sci & Engn, Denver, CO 80204 USA - Author
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Abstract

Although several previous studies on laterality of upper limb motor control have reported functional differences, this conclusion has not been agreed upon. It may be conjectured that the inconsistent results were caused because upper limb motor control was observed in multi-joint tasks that could generate different inter-joint motor coordination for each arm. Resolving this, we employed a single wrist joint tracking task to reduce the effect of multi-joint dynamics and examined the differences between the dominant and non-dominant hands in terms of motor control. Specifically, we defined two sections to induce feedback (FB) and feedforward (FF) controls: the first section involved a visible target for FB control, and the other section involved an invisible target for FF control. We examined the differences in the position errors of the tracer and the target. Fourteen healthy participants performed the task. As a result, we found that during FB control, the dominant hand performed better than the non-dominant hand, while we did not observe significant differences in FF control. In other words, in a single-joint movement that is not under the influence of the multi-joint coordination, only FB control showed laterality and not FF control. Furthermore, we confirmed that the dominant hand outperformed the non-dominant hand in terms of responding to situations that required a change in control strategy.

Keywords

Arm advantagesAsymmetriesCerebellumCircular tracking movementCompensationFeedbackHand dominanceHandednessInternal-modelManual trackingMotorMotor controlPredictionTargetVisual perceptio

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    This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Japan; United States of America.