Automated postural responses are modified in a functional manner by instruction

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 186, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 571-580

  Weerdesteyn, Vivian ^a,b   Laing, Andrew C ^c   Robinovitch, Stephen N ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SINT MAARTENSKLINIEK   (Netherlands)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSITION; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; LEG MOVEMENT; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NECK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STANDING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRUNK;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; POSTURE; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 43349090569     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-1260-1     Document Type: Article

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