Visual factors in the child's gait: Effects on locomotor skills

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 85, Issue 3 PART 1, 1996, Pages 1019-1041

  Assaiante, Christine ^a   Amblard, Bernard ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GAIT; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MALE; ORIENTATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; VISION;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GAIT; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; ORIENTATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030329907     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1996.83.3.1019     Document Type: Article

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