To investigate the muscle coordination during postural control, we recorded muscle activity and postural dynamics in healthy human adults. Fourteen participants performed postural tasks in which postural stability and pointing behaviour was varied. The data set contains electromyography of 36 muscles distributed across the body and ground reaction forces recorded during postural control tasks. A full factorial design was used. Stability was either not challenged or challenged in the anterior-posterior or medial-lateral direction. In addition, participants were asked to either relax their arms or to perform an unimanual or a bimanual pointing task. In the pointing task, participants held a laser pointer and pointed it on a target in front of them. Pointing performance was recorded using a video recording of the laser beam on the target area. InformationData.pdf – Description of data acquisition and file structure EMG.zip – EMG data FP.zip – Force plate data Video.zip – Video feed

This work was supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO Veni-grant 45110-030 and NWO Vidi-grant 016.156.346)