How far ahead do we look when required to step on specific locations in the travel path during locomotion?

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 133-138

  Patla, Aftab E ^a   Vickers, Joan N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cluttered terrain; Feedforward control; Gaze behaviour; Human locomotion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; GAIT; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LOCOMOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; DEPTH PERCEPTION; LEG; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISION;

FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LEG; LOCOMOTION; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0037213653     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-002-1246-y     Document Type: Article

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