The neuromechanical tuning hypothesis

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 165, Issue , 2007, Pages 255-265

  Prochazka, Arthur ^a   Yakovenko, Sergiy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

central pattern generators; neural control of locomotion; sensory control of locomotion

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; HUMAN; INTERNEURON; KINEMATICS; LOCOMOTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PATTERN GENERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; PROPRIOCEPTION;

EID: 34948895535     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(06)65016-4     Document Type: Review

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