Perception of limb orientation in the vertical plane depends on center of mass rather than inertial eigenvectors

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 180, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 595-607

  Van De Langenberg, Rolf ^a,b   Kingma, Idsart ^a,b   Beek, Peter J ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Instituut voor Fundamentele en Klinische Bewegingswetenschappen Amsterdam   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Center of mass; Gravitational torque; Inertial eigenvectors; Information; Kinesthesis; Limb position sense; Proprioception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; ELBOW; FEMALE; FOREARM; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINESTHESIA; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE MASS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; TORQUE; WEIGHT;

ADULT; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORIENTATION; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TORQUE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34250798010     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-0891-6     Document Type: Article

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