Training infant treadmill stepping: The role of individual pattern stability

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 89-102

  Vereijken, Beatrix ^a,c   Thelen, Esther ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dynamic systems; Infants; Learning; Motor development

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVENTION STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; WALKING;

EID: 0031092448     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2302(199703)30:2<89::AID-DEV1>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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