10 Facts About Motor coordination

Motor coordination is the orchestrated movement of multiple body parts as required to accomplish intended actions, like walking.

Complexity of motor coordination goes unnoticed in everyday tasks, such as in the task of picking up and pouring a bottle of water into a glass.

Additional levels of Motor coordination are required depending on if the person intends to drink from the glass, give it to someone else, or simply put it on a table.

Inter-limb Motor coordination is concerned about how movements are coordinated across limbs.

In walking for instance, inter-limb Motor coordination refers to the spatiotemporal patterns associated with the movement of the legs.

Prior work in vertebrates showed that distinct inter-limb Motor coordination patterns, called gaits, occur at different walking speed ranges as to minimize the cost of transport.

Several studies have proposed that inter-limb Motor coordination can be modeled by coupled phase oscillators, a key component of a central pattern generator control architecture.

Intra-limb Motor coordination involves orchestrating the movement of the limb segments that make up a single limb.

Alternatively, intra-limb Motor coordination can be accomplished by just controlling the trajectory of an end-effector, such as a hand.

Eye–hand Motor coordination is associated with how eye movements are coordinated with and influence hand movements.