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

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 …

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

The study of posture dynamics is important not only to understand disorders of impaired
equilibrium and protective reactions to unexpected displacements of the human body, but …

A new conceptual and theoretical framework for studying the human postural control system
is introduced. Mathematical techniques from statistical mechanics are developed and …

Experiments on the maintenance of postural stability on flat stationary support surfaces
(quiet standing) that show only limited modes of the potential configurations of balance …

Many components of the nervous and musculoskeletal systems act in concert to achieve the
stable, upright human posture. Controlled experiments accompanied by appropriate …

Human stance requires the coordination of multiple joints. This article examines the
dynamics of postural coordination modes involving the torso and legs in the control of stance …

Understanding postural control requires considering various mechanisms underlying a
person's ability to stand, to walk, and to interact with the environment safely and efficiently …