Motor styles in action: Developing a computational framework for operationalization of motor distances
Jordi Manuello, Camilla Maronati, Matilde Rocca, Riccardo Guidotti, Tommaso Costa, Andrea Cavallo · 2024
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Jordi Manuello, Camilla Maronati, Matilde Rocca, Riccardo Guidotti, Tommaso Costa, and Andrea Cavallo build a ruler for how differently two movements are performed. Their 2024 paper observes that beyond shared regularities, people move in personal styles, and the same person varies trial to trial. No robust, widely adopted way existed to quantify the distance between two movements.
Their method borrows the Procrustes transformation, which aligns shapes before comparing them, and applies it to wrist velocity, acceleration, and jerk during reaching and grasping. Sixteen participants acted with a partner whose movements should sit closest together, and the metric correctly placed them so. The distance pattern held across two grip types, suggesting it captures a genuine motor style. Kinematics research gains a shared yardstick.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jordi Manuello, Camilla Maronati, Matilde Rocca, Riccardo Guidotti, Tommaso Costa, Andrea Cavallo |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |