Neuromechanical tuning of nonlinear postural control dynamics

Chaos

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Ting, Lena H ^a,b   Van Antwerp, Keith W ^a   Scrivens, Jevin E ^c   McKay, J Lucas ^b   Welch, Torrence D J ^a   Bingham, Jeffrey T ^c   DeWeerth, Stephen P ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; HUMAN; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS;

BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; MUSCULOSKELETAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; POSTURAL BALANCE; ROBOTICS;

EID: 67651111968     PISSN: 10541500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3142245     Document Type: Article

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