Chaos in human rhythmic movement

Journal of Motor Behavior

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 195-198

  Mitra, Suvobrata ^a,b   Riley, Michael A ^a   Turvey, Michael T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b CESPA ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Degrees of freedom; Dynamics; Phase space reconstruction; Rhythmic movement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; DYNAMICS; HUMAN; LIMB MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; OSCILLATION; PERIODICITY;

EID: 0030866716     PISSN: 00222895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222899709600834     Document Type: Article

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