Intersegmental coordination during human locomotion: Does planar covariation of elevation angles reflect central constraints?

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1406-1419

  Hicheur, Halim ^a,c   Terekhov, Alexander V ^a,b   Berthoz, Alain ^a  

^a l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FOOT; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; KINEMATICS; LIMB MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WALKING SPEED;

ADULT; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; JOINTS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; RUNNING; WALKING;

EID: 33748525830     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00289.2006     Document Type: Article

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