Visually evoked whole-body turning responses during stepping in place in a virtual environment

Gait and Posture

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 317-321

  Reed Jones, Rebecca J ^a   Hollands, Mark A ^b   Reed Jones, James G ^a   Vallis, Lori Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axial segment coordination; Gaze; Locomotion; Oculomotor; Steering; Turning; Virtual environment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; ORIENTATION; POSTURE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WALKING;

EID: 68349144703     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.06.001     Document Type: Article

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