On the fractal properties of natural human standing

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 283, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 173-176

  Duarte, Marcos ^a   Zatsiorsky, Vladimir M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b The Stt University University Park   (United States)

Author keywords

Balance; Center of pressure; Long range correlations; Motor control; Posture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSITION; CONTROL SYSTEM; FEMALE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STANDING;

EID: 0034646799     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)00960-5     Document Type: Article

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