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biological system organizes movement and posture, assess control relative to a task, and identify justified observations or adjustments.", "definition": "Motor control is the process by which the nervous system, interacting with the body and environment, regulates posture and movement to meet task demands.", "scope_statement": "This model owns motor control as the ongoing organization and regulation of biological movement and posture through interactions among neural activity, body mechanics, sensory information, task demands, and surroundings; this interpretation remains provisional because the registry supplies no definition.", "in_scope": [ "Task goals, controlled variables, and criteria for successful movement or posture", "Movement preparation, action selection, initiation, coordination, and termination", "Sensory feedback, predictive control, and responses to disturbances", "Coordination across effectors under biomechanical and environmental constraints", "Task-specific control 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coordination need not imply a single central command: the account must distinguish neural contributions from body mechanics and environmental interactions.", "A controller regulating an electric motor belongs to the engineering sense of the term and requires a separate scope decision." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Task goal and controlled variable", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Relation to a task and candidate variable, such as endpoint position, contact force, balance, or movement timing", "why_it_matters": "The same motion can be successful or unsuccessful depending on what the system must achieve." }, { "name": "Effector configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Specified body segments, joints, muscles, or interacting effectors", "why_it_matters": "Defines the coordination problem and the available ways to achieve the task." }, { "name": "Control phase", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Preparation, initiation, execution, correction, termination, or posture maintenance; phases may overlap", "why_it_matters": "Different observations and interventions address different parts of control." }, { "name": "Sensory information availability", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Available, reduced, delayed, conflicting, or absent for each specified sensory channel", "why_it_matters": "Constrains which feedback-based explanations are plausible." }, { "name": "Task error", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Task-defined deviation in units such as millimetres, degrees, newtons, milliseconds, or failure proportion", "why_it_matters": "Makes performance assessable without assuming one universal measure of good control." }, { "name": "Correction latency", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Milliseconds from a specified disturbance or cue to an operationally defined response onset", "why_it_matters": "Helps characterize corrective behavior when stimulus timing and response detection are documented." }, { "name": "Movement variability", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Within-task dispersion or covariance of specified variables, with units, trial count, and normalization recorded", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes variation that compromises task success from variation compatible with successful coordination." }, { "name": "Explanatory commitment", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Attributed account, such as internal-model, optimal-feedback-control, equilibrium-point, dynamical-systems, ecological, or hybrid", "why_it_matters": "Keeps theoretical assumptions visible and prevents an inferred mechanism from being recorded as a direct observation." } ], "affordances": [ "Specify a movement or posture task with observable success criteria and relevant constraints.", "Compare performance across sensory conditions, loads, speeds, or disturbances.", "Separate recorded kinematics, forces, and muscle activity from hypotheses about control mechanisms.", "Identify observations that could discriminate between competing explanations of coordination.", "Propose bounded task or feedback adjustments for evaluation under the applicable experimental or care protocol." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Explain how the nervous system controls posture and movement, citing research.", "Support rehabilitation exercises a clinician has prescribed and report progress." ], "must_not": [ "Diagnose a movement disorder from video or sensor data without a clinician.", "Push a patient beyond the limits a therapist has set.", "Share a person's movement or gait data without consent, as it can reveal health and identity." ], "requires_human": [ "Changing a rehabilitation plan.", "Using movement data in decisions about a person's fitness to work or drive." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Movement data can reveal illness before a person chooses to disclose it.", "Rehabilitation goals should reflect what matters to the patient." ], "affected_parties": [ "Patients in rehabilitation", "People with movement disorders", "Athletes" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Nobody owns the process; clinicians answer for its assessment in each patient.", "master_systems": [] }, "what_it_is_for": [ "Motor control is studied in neuroscience, rehabilitation and movement science to explain how organisms regulate posture and action.", "It is assessed during tasks such as reaching, walking and balancing to relate movement performance to sensory information, body mechanics and environmental demands." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "The World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health provides official categories for describing human movement functions and associated activity limitations." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Impaired movement regulation can contribute to falls, collisions and loss of safe object handling.", "Mistaking an observed movement pattern for a specific neurological cause can lead to inappropriate assessment or support.", "Tasks that exceed an individual's movement capabilities can increase injury risk and reduce safe participation." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "recognition": "Motor control is a biological process inferred from movement and other measurements rather than directly identified by visual appearance." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q2996165: motor control", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2996165", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Motor control", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_control", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "task-and-control-target", "name": "Task and control target", "description": "Establishes what the biological system is trying to maintain or change and what counts as an instance of control.", "rationale": "Motor control cannot be judged from movement appearance without knowing the task and its constraints.", "layers": [ { "id": "movement-and-posture-goals", "name": "Movement and posture goals", "description": "Records the task outcome and candidate variables regulated during movement or stillness.", "findings": [ { "id": "task-relative-success", "name": "Task-relative success", "description": "Record the intended outcome, tolerances, and whether the controlled variable is explicitly instructed or inferred from behavior.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the task to reach a target, regulate contact force, maintain posture, produce a rhythm, or achieve another specified outcome?", "kind": "definition", "id": "task-relative-success-q01" }, { "text": "Which observable variable and tolerance distinguish success from failure, and what supports treating that variable as controlled?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "task-relative-success-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "episode-and-context-boundaries", "name": "Episode and context boundaries", "description": "Defines the control episode and separates immediate regulation from adjacent processes.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-episode-boundary", "name": "Control episode boundary", "description": "Specify episode onset and termination, including preparatory and postural activity where relevant, and distinguish immediate control from retained learning.", "questions": [ { "text": "What events delimit preparation, movement onset, task completion, and any subsequent stabilization?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "control-episode-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence concern performance in this episode or a retained change demonstrated in later trials or sessions?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "control-episode-boundary-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "sensorimotor-regulation", "name": "Sensorimotor regulation", "description": "Describes how sensory information and anticipatory processes could support 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"sensory-dependent-response-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "anticipation-and-preparation", "name": "Anticipation and preparation", "description": "Examines behavior preceding movement or expected disturbances.", "findings": [ { "id": "predictive-control-evidence", "name": "Predictive control evidence", "description": "Distinguish observations consistent with anticipation from stronger claims about internal models or other predictive mechanisms.", "questions": [ { "text": "What preparatory activity or force adjustment occurs before the expected movement consequence or disturbance?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "predictive-control-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What comparison with unexpected or differently cued events would distinguish anticipation from a response to an earlier sensory cue?", "kind": "action", "id": "predictive-control-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "body-and-effector-coordination", "name": "Body and effector coordination", "description": "Represents how the body's 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"evidence-performance-and-adjustment", "name": "Evidence, performance, and adjustment", "description": "Connects measurements and theoretical accounts to defensible judgments and next actions.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish poor task performance from uncertain mechanism attribution before choosing what to investigate or adjust.", "layers": [ { "id": "performance-and-tradeoffs", "name": "Performance and tradeoffs", "description": "Assesses task outcomes alongside timing, effort, variability, and disturbance tolerance.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditional-performance-judgment", "name": "Conditional performance judgment", "description": "Judge control under documented task conditions and explicit priorities rather than ranking movement by a single context-free score.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do accuracy, completion time, effort measures, and failure frequency change across the specified task conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "conditional-performance-judgment-q01" }, { "text": "Which bounded change to load, target tolerance, movement speed, or feedback would test the suspected limitation, and what are the stopping criteria?", "kind": "action", "id": "conditional-performance-judgment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "competing-control-accounts", "name": "Competing control accounts", "description": "Records attributed definitions, explanatory assumptions, and discriminating evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "theory-linked-interpretation", "name": "Theory-linked interpretation", "description": "For each proposed account, record its authors or school, what it treats as controlled, and which observations would favor or challenge it; allow compatible accounts at different explanatory levels.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which authors or school supply this account, and what do they posit about representations, feedback policies, body mechanics, or organism-environment coupling?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "theory-linked-interpretation-q01" }, { "text": "Which feasible observation would separate the candidate accounts, and which current observations remain compatible with more than one?", "kind": "action", "id": "theory-linked-interpretation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The biological sense is inferred from the name and ACT.PRC domain; the registry provides no definition to rule out electric motor control.", "Computational, ecological, and dynamical-systems approaches differ over the explanatory roles of internal representations, feedback, and self-organisation; no single theoretical account is universally accepted.", "The listed kinds overlap, and the measurements operationalise particular aspects of performance rather than a single general motor-control ability." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of motor control this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Voluntary movement control", "Reflex control", "Postural control", "Locomotor control", "Oculomotor control", "Fine motor control" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of motor control this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Designing rehabilitation exercises for impaired movement and balance", "Analysing skilled movement in sport and occupational tasks", "Studying how sensory feedback and prediction guide reaching and grasping", "Developing prostheses and interfaces that translate neural or muscular signals into movement", "Evaluating coordination and movement development" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of motor control this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Reaction time", "typical_range": "Task-, modality-, and population-dependent; no universal reference range", "unit": "ms" }, { "quantity": "Movement endpoint error", "typical_range": "Depends on target size, movement distance, and experimental conditions", "unit": "mm or degrees" }, { "quantity": "Trial-to-trial movement variability", "typical_range": "Depends on the measured movement feature and task", "unit": "Units of the measured feature, or % for coefficient of variation" }, { "quantity": "Postural sway displacement", "typical_range": "Depends on stance, sensory conditions, and measurement protocol", "unit": "mm" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of motor control this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Impaired balance and postural responses can contribute to falls.", "Poor coordination can reduce movement accuracy and interfere with daily activities.", "Involuntary movements can disrupt intended actions.", "Impaired sensory feedback can compromise movement correction.", "Fatigue can reduce precision and alter coordination." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of motor control this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Motor learning", "difference": "Motor learning concerns relatively persistent changes in movement capability through practice or experience; motor control concerns how movement is regulated during performance." }, { "name": "Motor planning", "difference": "Motor planning concerns preparing and selecting actions before execution; motor control also includes execution and ongoing adjustment." }, { "name": "Biomechanics", "difference": "Biomechanics studies the mechanical properties and behaviour of biological systems; motor control asks how those systems are regulated to produce posture and movement." }, { "name": "Motor development", "difference": "Motor development concerns changes in movement capabilities across the lifespan rather than regulation of a particular action." }, { "name": "Electric motor control", "difference": "Electric motor control regulates an electromechanical motor's operation; the sense described here concerns biological movement." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of 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