Determinants guiding alternate foot placement selection and the behavioral responses are similar when avoiding a real or a virtual obstacle

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 171, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 497-510

  Moraes, Renato ^a   Patla, Aftab E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alternate foot placement; Locomotion; Movement economy; Movement selection; Real hole

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY MOVEMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WALKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BIOMECHANICS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; WALKING;

EID: 33744792055     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-0297-2     Document Type: Article

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