Is backward stepping over obstacles achieved through a simple temporal reversal of forward stepping?

International Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 93, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 189-196

  Carpenter, M G ^a   Bellos, A ^a   Patla, A E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Backward stepping; Central pattern generator; Muscle activity; Obstacle avoidance; Trailing limb

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032052633     PISSN: 00207454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00207459808986424     Document Type: Article

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