Abstract
In human coordination studies information from the environment may not only pace rhythmic behavior, but also contribute to the observed dynamics, e.g. aphenomenon known as anchoring in the literature. For the paradigmatic caseof bimanual coordination we study these contributions mathematically and develop a model of the interaction between the limb's intrinsic dynamics and environmental signals from a metronome in terms of oscillator equations. We discuss additive versus multiplicative metronomeimpact and show the latter to be more appropriate.Our model describes single limb-metronome interaction, as well as multilimb-metronome interaction. We establish a parametricstabilization term which preserves the characteristicsof bimanual coordination and additionally explains the varyingstability of movement under different metronome conditions, the frequency dependence of the amplitudes of finger movements, anchoring phenomena andgeometries of phase space trajectories. Predictions of our model are tested against experimental observations.
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Jirsa, V., Fink, P., Foo, P. et al. Parametric stabilization of biological coordination: a theoretical model. Journal of Biological Physics 26, 85–112 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005208122449
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