Head control strategies during whole-body turns

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 475-486

  Solomon, David ^a   Vijay Kumar, ^a   Jenkins, R Adam ^a   Jewell, John ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Gaze shift; Head stabilization; Step turn; Vestibulocollic reflex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IN SPACE ROTATION; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROL STRATEGY; DIRECTIONAL VISION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GAZE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEAD ON BODY ROTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PELVIS; PELVIS ROTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STEP TURN; TIME; VELOCITY; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WHOLE BODY TURN;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; CUES; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; ROTATION;

EID: 33747112494     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0393-y     Document Type: Article

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