The learned rearrangement of an inborn postural pattern.
The postural displacement accompanying a learned movement was studied in the dog. Dogs were trained to change the diagonal postural pattern into an ipsilateral one. Such a rearrangement of inborn postural pattern is very difficult and requires several hundred trials. A biomechanical model connecting the changes of pressure of different limbs with kinematics of different part of the body is proposed.
D000818:Animals; D001362:Avoidance Learning / Q000502:physiology; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D004285:Dogs; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D008954:Models, Biological; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology*; D009044:Motor Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D011187:Posture