Human odometer is gait-symmetry specific

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1677, 2009, Pages 4309-4314

  Turvey, Michael T ^a   Romaniak Gross, Carissa ^a   Isenhower, Robert W ^a   Arzamarski, Ryan ^a   Harrison, Steven ^a   Carello, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Berkeley; Idiothetic distance; Legged locomotion; Odometry; Symmetry group

Indexed keywords

HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIMB; LOCOMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMMETRY;

ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LOCOMOTION; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 72749124207     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1134     Document Type: Article

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