%0 Journal Article %T The brain adjusts grip forces differently according to gravity and inertia: a parabolic flight experiment %+ UFR Sciences du Sport (STAPS) (Université de Bourgogne) %+ Cognition, Action, et Plasticité Sensorimotrice [Dijon - U1093] (CAPS) %A White, Olivier %< avec comité de lecture %@ 1662-5145 %J Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience %I Frontiers %V 9 %8 2015-02 %D 2015 %R 10.3389/fnint.2015.00007 %K grip force %K load force %K rhythmic movement %K gravity %K internal model %K inertia %K precision grip %K internal-models %K arm movements %K grasped objects %K motor control %K held objects %K motion %K dynamics %K representation %Z Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC]Journal articles %X In everyday life, one of the most frequent activities involves accelerating and decelerating an object held in precision grip. In many contexts, humans scale and synchronize their grip force (GF), normal to the finger/object contact, in anticipation of the expected tangential load force (LF), resulting from the combination of the gravitational and the inertial forces. In many contexts, GF and LF are linearly coupled. A few studies have examined how we adjust the parameters gain and offset of this linear relationship. However, the question remains open as to how the brain adjusts GF regardless of whether LF is generated by different combinations of weight and inertia. Here, we designed conditions to generate equivalent magnitudes of LF by independently varying mass and movement frequency. In a control experiment, we directly manipulated gravity in parabolic flights, while other factors remained constant. We show with a simple computational approach that, to adjust GF, the brain is sensitive to how LFs are produced at the fingertips. This provides clear evidence that the analysis of the origin of LF is performed centrally, and not only at the periphery. %G English %L hal-01303367 %U https://u-bourgogne.hal.science/hal-01303367 %~ UNIV-BOURGOGNE %~ U1093