Blind humans rely on muscle sense more than normally sighted humans for guiding goal-directed movement

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 471, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 171-174

  Yoshimura, Atsuko ^a   Matsugi, Akiyoshi ^a   Esaki, Yoshihisa ^b   Nakagaki, Koichi ^c   Hiraoka, Koichi ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefectural Special Needs Education School for the Visually Impaired   (Japan)

^c Osaka City Medical School   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blind; Motor control; Muscle sense; Vibration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BLINDNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSORY EVALUATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIBRATION SENSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; BLINDNESS; CUES; GOALS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; VIBRATION;

EID: 76749092527     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.01.035     Document Type: Article

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