{"id":7602,"date":"2019-05-22T15:58:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/coordinative_structure\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:58:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:38","slug":"coordinative_structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/coordinative_structure\/","title":{"rendered":"Coordinative structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A term introduced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enotes.com\/topic\/Nikolai_Bernstein\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.enotes.com\/topic\/Nikolai_Bernstein&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nikolai A. Bernstein<\/a> (1896-1966) to indicate a functional grouping of muscles spanning a number of joints that is flexibly assembled to achieve a specific goal. &nbsp;Also referred to as a synergy or functional generator. &nbsp;It is seen as a solution to the degrees-of-freedom problem in that muscles are not controlled as separate units, but as task-specific, functional groupings.<\/p>\n<p>See Biomechanical degrees of freedom problem, <a href=\"coordination\">Coordination<\/a>, Degrees of freedom (or Bernstein&#8217;s problem, Movement coordination, <a href=\"non-univocality_principle\">Non-univocality principle<\/a>, Synergy<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A term introduced by Nikolai A. Bernstein (1896-1966) to indicate a functional grouping of muscles spanning a number of joints that is flexibly assembled to achieve a specific goal. &nbsp;Also referred to as a synergy or functional generator. &nbsp;It is seen as a solution to the degrees-of-freedom problem in that muscles are not controlled as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/coordinative_structure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Coordinative structure&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}