What guides the selection of alternate foot placement during locomotion in humans

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 441-450

  Patla, A E ^a   Prentice, S D ^a   Rietdyk, S ^a   Allard, F ^a   Martin, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive strategies; Foot placement; Human locomotion; Obstacle avoidance; Path planning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FOOT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BIOMECHANICS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; LIGHT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0032870489     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050867     Document Type: Article

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