Postural adjustments due to external perturbations during sitting in 1-month-old infants: Evidence for the innate origin of direction specificity

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 10-17

  Hedberg, Åsa ^a,c   Forssberg, Hans ^a   Hadders Algra, Mijna ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Development; EMG; Infant; Kinematics; Postural control

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; KINEMATICS; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NECK MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITTING; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

BIOMECHANICS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; NEURAL INHIBITION; PROPRIOCEPTION; REFLEX;

EID: 3142664023     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-003-1811-z     Document Type: Article

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