Peripheral visual cues affect minimum-foot-clearance during overground locomotion

Gait and Posture

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 370-374

  Graci, Valentina ^a   Elliott, David B ^a   Buckley, John G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Minimum foot clearance; Online control; Overground locomotion; Peripheral visual cues; Visual exproprioception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; VISUAL FIELD; WALKING SPEED;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; CUES; ENVIRONMENT; EYE PROTECTIVE DEVICES; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WALKING;

EID: 68349127236     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.06.011     Document Type: Article

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