Motor skill acquisition under environmental perturbations: On the necessity of alternate freezing and freeing of degrees of freedom

Adaptive Behavior

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 47-64

  Berthouze, Luc ^a,b,c,d   Lungarella, Max ^a,b,e  

^a Neuroscience Research Institute   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D EVRY VAL D ESSONNE   (France)

^d ELECTROTECHNICAL LABORATORY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Developmental robotics; Embodiment; Entrainment; Freezing and freeing of degrees of freedom; Neural oscillator

Indexed keywords

EID: 3242749964     PISSN: 10597123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/105971230401200104     Document Type: Article

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