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Serving performance in a suprapostural visual signal detection task: context-dependent and direction-specific control of body sway with fingertip light touch

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We are grateful for Max Hünemörder’s programming support as well as funding received from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF; 01EO1401) and from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through the TUM International Graduate School of Science and Engineering (IGSSE).

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Supplementary Figure 2. Schematic of the processes adjusting random vertical jitter amplitude in response to light fingertip contact force or body sway in each implicit feedback condition (IFC). In each stream a reference for minimum vertical jitter amplitude was defined. In the body sway-referenced IFC condition, the average mediolateral (ML) Centre-of-Pressure position (AV ML CoP) was extracted from a pre-trial period, two seconds before the begin of the target oscillation. This resembled the baseline reference for the minimum vertical jitter amplitude. During a trial the jitter amplitude was adjusted in proportion to the deviation from the reference. In the contact force-referenced IFC condition, 1 N normal force onto the force-torque transducer resembled the baseline reference. A deviation of the contact force from this reference resulted in a proportional adjustment of jitter amplitude, if the contact force fell into the range of 0.4 N to 1.6 N. Outside this range, jitter amplitude was maximal without dependency on the contact force. In the third IFC, jitter was always maximal without any dependency on body sway or fingertip contact force. LT-IJ: fingertip light touch with independent maximum jitter amplitude; LT-CF: jitter amplitude dependent on light touch fingertip contact force; LT-BS: jitter amplitude dependent on body sway with additional fingertip light touch; NT-BS: jitter amplitude dependent on body sway without additional fingertip light touch (PDF 96 KB)

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Supplementary Figure 3. Data traces illustrating each of the implicit feedback coupling (IFC) conditions. The top row shows the target jitter on the display screen and the middle row the corresponding input signal generating the evoked jitter response. The bottom row shows mediolateral body sway velocity (ML dCoP). LT-IJ: fingertip light touch with independent maximum jitter amplitude; LT-CF: jitter amplitude dependent on light touch fingertip contact force; LT-BS: jitter amplitude dependent on body sway with additional fingertip light touch; NT-BS: jitter amplitude dependent on body sway without additional fingertip light touch (PDF 138 KB)

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Kaulmann, D., Hermsdörfer, J. & Johannsen, L. Serving performance in a suprapostural visual signal detection task: context-dependent and direction-specific control of body sway with fingertip light touch. J Neurol 265 (Suppl 1), 74–76 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-018-8911-y

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