Abstract
Balancing a stick on the fingertip while standing upright is a dual balancing task that requires the integration of two independent control systems. This is a completely novel experimental paradigm for attempting to understand how the brain deals with equilibrium in a general way. Preliminary results are presented and interpreted in the framework of an intermittent control policy extended to include a dual balancing task. In particular the study reveals that the upright standing (the less critical task) is modified in an adaptive way, in order to facilitate the more critical task, i.e. stick balancing.
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