Visual guidance of landing behaviour when stepping down to a new level

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 223-232

  Buckley, John G ^a   MacLellan, Michael J ^b   Tucker, Mark W ^a   Scally, Andy J ^a   Bennett, Simon J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive locomotion; Continuous vision; Landing impacts; Visual guidance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; LEG MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; VISION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; JOINTS; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WALKING; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 36348971684     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-1096-8     Document Type: Article

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