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J Neurophysiol 83: 3188-3195, 2000;
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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 83 No. 5 May 2000, pp. 3188-3195
Copyright ©2000 by the American Physiological Society

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Control of the Wrist in Three-Joint Arm Movements to Multiple Directions in the Horizontal Plane

Gail F. Koshland,1 James C. Galloway,2 and Cedrine J. Nevoret-Bell2

 1Department of Physiology and  2Physiological Sciences Program, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85724

Koshland, Gail F., James C. Galloway, and Cedrine J. Nevoret-Bell. Control of the Wrist in Three-Joint Arm Movements to Multiple Directions in the Horizontal Plane. J. Neurophysiol. 83: 3188-3195, 2000. In a reaching movement, the wrist joint is subject to inertial effects from proximal joint motion. However, precise control of the wrist is important for reaching accuracy. Studies of three-joint arm movements report that the wrist joint moves little during point-to-point reaches, but muscle activities and kinetics have not yet been described across a range of movement directions. We hypothesized that to minimize wrist motion, muscle torques at the wrist must perfectly counteract inertial effects arising from proximal joint motion. Subjects were given no instructions regarding joint movement and were observed to keep the wrist nearly motionless during center-out reaches to directions throughout the horizontal plane. Consistent with this, wrist muscle torques exactly mirrored interaction torques, in contrast to muscle torques at proximal joints. These findings suggest that in this reaching task the nervous system chooses to minimize wrist motion by anticipating dynamic inertial effects. The wrist muscle torques were associated with a direction-dependent choice of muscles, also characterized by initial reciprocal activation rather than initial coactivation to stiffen the wrist joint. In a second experiment, the same pattern of muscle acitivities persisted even after many trials reaching with the wrist joint immobilized. These results, combined with similar features at the three joints, such as cosine-like tuning of muscle torques and of muscle onsets across direction, suggest that the nervous system uses similar rules for muscles at each joint, as part of one plan for the arm during a point-to-point reach.




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