Perception of affordances for standing on an inclined surface depends on height of center of mass

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 25-35

  Regia Corte, Tony ^a   Wagman, Jeffrey B ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordances; Haptics; Perception; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; EXPERIMENTATION; FEMALE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MASS; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDING; SURFACE PROPERTY; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; WEIGHT BEARING;

FEMALE; GRAVITY SENSING; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; POSTURAL BALANCE; POSTURE; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 52449089385     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1492-8     Document Type: Article

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