Université de Fribourg

Changes in balance coordination and transfer to an unlearned balance task after slackline training: a self-organizing map analysis

Serrien, Ben ; Hohenauer, Erich ; Clijsen, Ron ; Taube, Wolfgang ; Baeyens, Jean-Pierre ; Küng, Ursula

In: Experimental Brain Research, 2017, vol. 235, no. 11, p. 3427–3436

How humans maintain balance and change postural control due to age, injury, immobility or training is one of the basic questions in motor control. One of the problems in understanding postural control is the large set of degrees of freedom in the human motor system. Therefore, a self-organizing map (SOM), a type of artificial neural network, was used in the present study to extract and...