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Table 5 Motor skills flow description through motor primitives

From: A unified scheme for the benchmarking of upper limb functions in neurological disorders

Motor skill

1) Anterior reaching at rest position height

2) Anterior reaching at shoulder height

3) Move objects at rest position height

4) Move objects at shoulder height

5) Hand to mouth without object

6) Hand to mouth with object

Motor primitives

1) Idle (A)

2) Point-to-point reach (B)

3) Reposition (A)

4) Point-to-point reach (C)

5) Reposition (A)

6) Point-to-point reach (D)

7) Reposition (A)

1) Idle (A)

2) Reach for grasp (B)

3) Transport (C)

4) Reposition (A)

5) Idle (A)

6) Reach for grasp (C)

7) Transport (D)

8) Reposition (A)

9) Idle (A)

10) Reach for grasp (D)

11) Transport (B)

12) Reposition (A)

1) Idle (A)

2) Point-to-point reach (E)

3) Idle (E)

4) Reposition (A)

1) Idle (A)

2) Reach for grasp (A)

3) Transport (E)

4) Stabilize (E)

5) Transport (A)

6) Reposition (A)