Postural control may be an ideal physiological motor task for elucidating general questions
about the organization, diversity, flexibility, and variability of biological motor behaviors …

Research on the use of vision for controlling posture is examined, showing how it has
focused on (1) neurophysiological processes underlying the intrinsic coordination in posture …

From ancient Greece to nowadays, research on posture control was guided and shaped by
many concepts. Equilibrium control is often considered part of postural control. However, two …

Publisher Summary Studies on the control of posture and locomotion over the past century
have taken a variety of experimental perspectives, including neurophysiological …

Muscle coordination may be difficult or impossible to predict accurately based on
biomechanical considerations alone because of redundancy in the musculoskeletal system …

The seemingly effortless ability to maintain and adapt posture has traditionally been
explained as the achievement of a single, relatively permanent postural control system …

In this study we examined whether the selection of postural feedback gain and its scaling is
dependent on perturbation type. We compare forward pushes applied to the back of a …

Several models have been employed to study human postural control during upright quiet
stance. Most have adopted an inverted pendulum approximation to the standing human and …

The control of balance is crucial to maintain our posture and perform efficiently our daily
motor tasks. Humans, as all terrestrial species, indeed evolve in a gravity field that …

Upright stance in humans is inherently unstable, requiring corrective action based on spatial-
orientation information from sensory systems. One might logically predict that environments …