| Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, Vol. 14, Iss. 4, Oct, 2010, pp. 435-462 @2010 Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences New Directions Offered by the Dynamical Systems Approach to Bimanual Coordination for Therapeutic Intervention and Research in Stroke Abstract: In the present paper, we review the main concepts of the dynamical systems
approach to bimanual coordination and propose applications to therapeutic intervention
for functional recovery of coordinated movements in stroke. Further, we describe the
behavioral alterations of discrete bimanual coordination resulting from cerebral vascular
accident (CVA) lesions and speculate on the possibility of mimicking the mechanisms of CVA
lesions via symmetry breaking in dynamic systems. Keywords: stroke, rehabilitation, upper-limb, bilateral arm training, coupling, dynamical systems |