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Characterizing Height-Induced Adaptation of Postural Control
TU Darmstadt, Germany
July 2022 - Ongoing
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Fear of falling has been found to correlate with increased postural sway, i.e. the oscillations of the center of pressure (CoP) that we experience even while standing quietly. Attempts at a deeper understanding of this correlation have tied behavioral to neurophysiological changes, but a rigorous computational explanation for the behavioral and neurophysiological changes is currently lacking. In this project, we seek to understand how do the computational goals underlying human balance control change when standing at a height.
This project is a collaboration between Cognitive Scientists from Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany) and Robotics Researchers from Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany), as a part of The Adaptive Mind researh cluster.
Publications
Koosha, T.A., Hahne, F., Kshirsagar, A., Augustat, N., Peters, J., & Endres, D.M.,
Fear and Anxiety Differentially Reweight Control Objectives: Evidence from Inverse Optimal Control,
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), 2026
Koosha, T.A., Hahne, F., Kshirsagar, A., Augustat, N., Melzig, C.A., Bremmer, F., Peters, J., & Endres, D.M.,
Inferring Height-Induced Changes in Postural Control via Inverse Optimal Control,
Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN), 2025
Koosha, T.A., Kshirsagar, A., Augustat, N., Hahne, F., Mühl, D., Melzig, C.A., Bremmer, F., Peters, J., & Endres, D.M.,
Staring Down the Elevator Shaft: Postural Responses to Virtual Heights in an Indoor Environment,
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), 2025
Spartakov, R., Kshirsagar, A., Mühl, D., Schween, R., Endres, D.M., Bremmer, F., Melzig, C., & Peters, J.,
Balancing on the Edge: Review and Computational Framework on the Dynamics of Fear of Falling and Fear of Heights in Postural Control,
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), 2024
