Critical points in the forelimb fictive locomotor cycle and motor coordination: Effects of phasic retractions and protractions of the shoulder in the cat

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1342-1356

  Saltiel, Philippe ^a,b   Rossignol, Serge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CAT; DECEREBRATION; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FORELIMB; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR COORDINATION; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PATTERN GENERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SHOULDER;

ANIMALS; CATS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FORELIMB; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SHOULDER;

EID: 4143122362     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00564.2003     Document Type: Article

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