Dynamic control of location-specific information in tactile cutaneous reflexes from the foot during human walking

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 3804-3814

  Van Wezel, Bart M H ^a   Ottenhoff, Frans A M ^b   Duysens, Jacques ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MEDTRONIC BAKKEN RESEARCH CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cutaneous reflexes; EMG; human walking; local sign; location specific information in reflexes; phase dependent reflex modulation; posterior tibial nerve; superficial peroneal nerve; sural nerve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERONEUS NERVE; POSTERIOR TIBIAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; SURAL NERVE; TACTILE STIMULATION; WALKING;

EID: 0030969245     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-10-03804.1997     Document Type: Article

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