Abstract
The postural control system is organized around two main behavioral goals: equilibrium and orientation. The task of controlling equilibrium requires balancing all the forces acting on the body to control the position of the body’s center of mass. The task of maintaining orientation requires interpretation of sensory information from many sources to align body parts with reference to gravitoinertial forces and other environmental features. Automatic postural responses that restore equilibrium in response to external perturbations in stance return the body to a particular orientation; that is, a particular body position which is selected based on particular orientation references (Massion, 1992).
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Horak, F.B., Shupert, C.L., Hlavačka, F. (1995). Vestibular-Somatosensory Interactions for Human Posture. In: Mergner, T., Hlavačka, F. (eds) Multisensory Control of Posture. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1931-7_29
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