Neck muscle vibration and spatial orientation during stepping in place in humans

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 2232-2241

  Bove, Marco ^a   Courtine, Gregoire ^b   Schieppati, Marco ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NECK MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; TILTING; VIBRATION;

EID: 0036849060     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00198.2002     Document Type: Article

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