Age-related complexity and coupling of children's sitting posture

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 502-510

  Hong, S Lee ^a   James, Eric G ^b   Newell, Karl M ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Coupling; Dynamic systems; Motor; Posture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY; FEMALE; FORCE TRANSDUCER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; SITTING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; AGE; KINESTHESIA; ORIENTATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; REFERENCE VALUE; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; ORIENTATION; POSTURE; PROPRIOCEPTION; REFERENCE VALUES; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 49849093227     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20310     Document Type: Article

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