Sensorimotor synchronization is a fundamental skill involved in the performance of many artistic activities (e.g., music, dance). After a century of research, the manner in which the nervous system produces synchronized movements remains poorly understood. Typical rhythmic movements involve a motion and a motionless phase (dwell). The dwell phase represents a sizable fraction of the rhythm peri...

Via training, dance experts develop special experience-based embodied representations of body and movement. Professional dancers, amateurs and novices sorted central functional nodes of two dance movements according to their spatial equivalence. Results of a hierarchical cluster analysis and classification probabilities revealed movement-specific differences in mental representations related to...

In this study we elucidated the role of nonactive JNK in regulating p53 stability. The amount of p53-JNK complex was inversely correlated with p53 level. A peptide corresponding to the JNK binding site on p53 efficiently blocked ubiquitination of p53. Similarly, p53 lacking the JNK binding site exhibits a longer half-life than p53(wt). Outcompeting JNK association with p53 increased the level o...

[5] Ludovic Righetti and Auke Jan Ijspeert. Quadruped locomotion: from infants crawling to the design of pattern generators for quadruped robots. In AMAM 2008 abstracts, pages 90–91, 2008. Acknowledgments The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Communitys Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013-Challenge 2-Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics-under gra...

The spanning set technique quantifies intertrial variability as the span between polynomial curves representing upper and lower standard deviation curves of a repeated movement. This study aimed to assess the validity of the spanning set technique in quantifying variability and specifically to determine its sensitivity to variability presented at different phases of a movement cycle. Knee angle...

INTRODUCTION Variation in motion between groups of dancers using a commonly performed movement (arabesque) involving coordination of postural control with upper and lower extremity multi-joint movement is presented. Quantitative measurements of “smoothness” and variability were employed in order to evaluate how the control of the arabesque movement varied with increasing skill levels and learni...

On the basis of the principle that topological quantum phases arise from the scattering around space-time defects in higher dimensional unification, a geometric model is presented that associates with each quantum phase an element of a transformation group.

The activity of the biceps brachii and lateral head of the triceps brachii were compared during the contact placing reactions elicited by tactile stimuli applied to the lateral, medial or dorsal aspects of the forepaw to verify the hypothesis that common movement strategy was used in all these reactions. Similar latencies and patterns of muscle activation have been found for the medial and dors...

Tumbling is a dynamic movement requiring control of the linear and angular momenta generated during the approach and takeoff phases. Both of these phases are subject to some variability even when the gymnast is trying to perform a given movement repeatedly. This paper used a simulation model of tumbling takeoff to establish how well gymnasts can cope with perturbations of the approach and takeo...

-We present a derivation of the Berry quantum adiabatic phase using group theory. Our formalism is used to discuss possible manifestations in Atomic Physics and to investigate the new cyclic quantum phase recently introduced by Aliaronov and Anandan. J. Physique 48 (1987) 1401-1406 SEPTEMBRE 1987,