Self-initiating a seated perturbation modifies the neck postural responses in humans

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 347, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-4

  Blouin, Jean Sébastien ^a   Descarreaux, Martin ^a   Bélanger Gravel, Ariane ^a   Simoneau, Martin ^a   Teasdale, Normand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognition; Neck electromyographic activity attenuation; Seated perturbation; Timing

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HEAD; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NECK; NECK MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAT; VELOCITY;

EID: 0038303561     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00632-3     Document Type: Article

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