Le mouvement est essentiel dans l'adaptation de l'Homme à son environnement physique, matériel et social. Il permet d'assurer des fonctions vitales (e.g., manger, boire ou communiquer). Le programme de recherche du laboratoire « Motricité, Interactions, Performance » (E.A. 4334) ambitionne de mieux comprendre comment est produit et s'organise le mouvement humain, à l'échelle du système musculo-tendineux, d'un individu et d'un groupe d'individus. Grâce à une approche interdisciplinaire (sciences de la vie, sciences humaines), ce programme vise à répondre à des enjeux scientifiques et sociétaux majeurs dans les domaines de la Performance sportive, de la Santé et de l'Education. The Movement, Interactions, Performance research team (MIP, recognized as Equipe d'accueil by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research) gathers professors-researchers and PhD students from the University of Nantes (Faculty of Sport Sciences) and the University of Maine (Department of Sport Sciences), working together in a multidisciplinary scientific program, entitled Performance analysis and optimization. The center of interest is the characterization and the understanding of physiological, biomechanical and psychological processes, fundamentally connected to human adaptive plasticity and responsible for the modification and improvement of performance. A better understanding of adaptive plasticity and of the conditions in which it can be exploited in various sport, educational and therapeutic situations, represents a first priority topic for the sport and physical activity community, and for the communities of other disciplines represented in the laboratory.
