Hierarchical organization of a reference system in newborn spontaneous movements

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 568-586

  Aßmann, Birte ^a   Romano, M Carmen ^b,c   Thiel, Marco ^b,c   Niemitz, Carsten ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hierarchical organization; Kinematics; Nonlinear dynamics; Spontaneous newborn movements

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; LEG MOVEMENT; LIMB MOVEMENT; LINEAR SYSTEM; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; NEWBORN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEORECORDING;

BIOMECHANICS; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 35348850114     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2007.04.004     Document Type: Article

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