Recently, there has been an increase in studies evaluating startle reflexes and StartReact,
many in tasks involving postural control and gait. These studies have provided important …

Background: Cognitive impairment-related changes in postural sway increase fall risk
among older adults. Better understanding this association could be helpful for fall …

The fact that weak leg muscles, impaired vision, numb feet, or insufficient blood pressure
can predispose someone to a fall is unsurprising. Consequently, such factors are a standard …

Key points Threats to standing balance (postural threat) are known to facilitate soleus
tendon‐tap reflexes, yet the mechanisms driving reflex changes are unknown. Scaling of …

Human standing balance relies on the continuous monitoring and integration of sensory
signals to infer our body's motion and orientation within the environment. However, when …

Step initiation is associated with anticipatory postural adjustments (APAs) that vary
according to the speed of the first step. When step initiation is elicited by a “go” signal (ie in a …

The central nervous system predictively controls posture against external disturbances;
however, the detailed mechanisms remain unclear. We tested the hypothesis that the …

In this study, the neuromuscular control modeling of the perturbed human upright stance is
assessed through piecewise affine autoregressive with exogenous input (PWARX) models …

Humans and animals learn the internal model of bodies and environments from their
experience and stabilize posture against disturbances based on the predicted future states …

Startling acoustic stimuli (SAS) induce the early release of prepared motor responses. The
current study used SAS, in conjunction with a classical conditioning paradigm, to examine …