Differences in unconditioned and conditioned responses of the human withdrawal reflex during stance: Muscle responses and biomechanical data

Brain Research

Volumn 1326, Issue , 2010, Pages 81-95

  Kaulich, Thomas ^a   Föhre, Wolfram ^a   Kutz, Dieter Friedhelm ^a   Gerwig, Markus ^b   Timmann, Dagmar ^b   Kolb, Florian Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Center of vertical pressure; Classically conditioned lower leg withdrawal reflex; Ground forces exerted; Sequence of muscles activated; Spatial parameters of body movements; Standing subjects

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BODY WEIGHT; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDING; WITHDRAWAL REFLEX;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURE; REACTION TIME; REFLEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950044338     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.02.051     Document Type: Article

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