Could different directions of infant stepping be controlled by the same locomotor central pattern generator?

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 2814-2824

  Lamb, Tania ^a   Yang, Jaynie F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN GENERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; TREADMILL; WALKING;

EID: 0034109072     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.2000.83.5.2814     Document Type: Article

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