Connecting the dots between animal and human studies of locomotion. Focus on "infants adapt their stepping to repeated trip-inducing stimuli"

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 2088-2089

  Bradley, Nina S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOTYPY; WALKING;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; INFANT; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, ANIMAL;

EID: 0142059036     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00619.2003     Document Type: Editorial

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