Sensory signals of unloading in one leg follow stance onset in another leg: Transfer of load and emergent coordination in cockroach walking

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2297-2304

  Zill, Sasha N ^a   Keller, Bridget R ^a   Duke, Elizabeth R ^a  

^a MARSHALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HINDLIMB; IMAGING; LEG MOVEMENT; MOTOR COORDINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; WALKING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COCKROACHES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LOCOMOTION; LOWER EXTREMITY; MOVEMENT; REFLEX; SENSE ORGANS; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 65449151442     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00056.2009     Document Type: Article

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