This dataset contains the code necessary to postprocess the experimental trajectory data of the Falling Heads experiment and perform the inverse dynamics analysis as described in the paper "’Falling Heads’: investigating reflexive responses to head-neck perturbations" by Isabell Wochner, Lennart V. Nölle, Oleksandr V. Martynenko and Syn Schmitt. Always cite the paper together with this dataset because this dataset is not self-explanatory.

The motion analyses were performed with custom software written in Matlab (Mathworks, Natick, MA) based on the recorded marker positions. From these recorded trajectories, we calculated displacements, velocities and accelerations and processed the signals with a Butterworth low-pass filter (cut-off frequency 15 Hz; fourth-order).

The folder contains 14 matlab codes, which you can and should run in their consecutive order to perform the postprocessing of the experimental trajectories (starting from A0.. up to A13). Furthermore, the matlab data files named "kinematic_analysis_expdata" contains the experimental data which is needed to run the scripts (they should be in the same folder).