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The relative contribution of proprioceptive and vestibulo-spinal signals to automatic balance corrections can be examined in terms of triggered patterns of muscle activity which are then amplitude modulated by sensory inputs. For both the triggering and modulation processes the question arises whether sensory weighting employed is similar across all joints or different for the different groups of coordinated agonist-antagonist muscle activity acting across each joint.
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Allum, J.H.J., Honegger, F. (1995). The Role of Proprioceptive and Vestibular Inputs in Triggering Human Balance Corrections. In: Mergner, T., Hlavačka, F. (eds) Multisensory Control of Posture. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1931-7_9
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