Locomotor Patterns of the Leading and the Trailing Limbs as Solid and Fragile Obstacles are Stepped over: Some Insights into the Role of Vision During Locomotion

Journal of Motor Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 35-47

  Patla, Aftab E ^a   Rietdyk, Shirley ^a   Martin, Christine ^a   Prentice, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exproprioceptive input; Exteroceptive input; Leading limb; Locomotion; Obstacle avoidance; Solid versus fragile obstacles; Trailing limb

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PROPRIOCEPTION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 0029984966     PISSN: 00222895     EISSN: 19401027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222895.1996.9941731     Document Type: Article

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