GALOFARO , Elisa

Human-environment interactions are common natural occurrences affecting every action. The environment includes objects whose manipulation requires careful somatosensory integration. For successful manipulation, the nervous system must be able to represent and predict the geometrical and mechanical features of sensory stimuli arising from the...

Background: Several daily living activities require people to coordinate the motion and the force produced by both arms, using their position sense and sense of effort. However, to date, the interaction in bimanual tasks has not been extensively investigated. Methods: We focused on bimanual tasks where subjects were required: (Experiment 1) to...