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 …

Virtual reality (VR) environments are increasingly being used by neuroscientists to simulate
natural events and social interactions. VR creates interactive, multimodal sensory stimuli that …

We analyze the irregularity of human postural sway data during quiet standing using the
sample entropy (SampEn) algorithm. By considering recent methodological developments …

During walking on a treadmill 10 human subjects (mean age 20 years) were perturbed by
100 ms pushes or pulls to the left or the right, of various magnitudes and in various phases …

Balance problems in hemiparetic patients after stroke can be caused by different
impairments in the physiological systems involved in postural control, including sensory …

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Falling is the second most prevalent cause of accidental death in the world. Currently
available clinical tests to assess balance in older people are insufficiently sensitive to screen …

It has been widely assumed for nearly a century, that postural muscles operate in a spring‐
like manner and that muscle length signals joint angle (the mechano‐reflex mechanism) …

Humans can stand using sensory information solely from the ankle muscles. Muscle length
and tension in the calf muscles (gastrocnemius and soleus) are unlikely to signal postural …

When standing quietly, human upright stance is typically approximated as a single segment
inverted pendulum. In contrast, investigations which perturb upright stance with support …