Anticipatory locomotor adjustments for accommodating versus avoiding level changes in humans

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 500-506

  McFadyen, B J ^a   Carnahan, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gait adjustments; Kinematics; Kinetics; Locomotion

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAIT; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE; LEG MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TORQUE; WALKING;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BIOMECHANICS; GAIT; HUMANS; JOINTS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY;

EID: 0030972134     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005659     Document Type: Article

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