Coordination of pointing and stepping: Do postural phenomena result from the juxtaposition of the dynamics of each task?

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 425, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 63-68

  Yiou, Eric ^a   Schneider, Cyril ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anticipatory postural adjustments; Motor coordination; Pointing; Postural dynamics; Stepping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; DYNAMICS; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; POSTURE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 34548704759     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.08.012     Document Type: Article

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