Adaptation to continuous perturbation of balance: Progressive reduction of postural muscle activity with invariant or increasing oscillations of the center of mass depending on perturbation frequency and vision conditions

Human Movement Science

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 262-278

  Schmid, Micaela ^a,b   Bottaro, Alessandra ^b   Sozzi, Stefania ^a,b   Schieppati, Marco ^a,b  

^a IRCCS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Dynamic postural control; EMG; Motor processes; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; VISION;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; KINESTHESIS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL ANALYZERS; ORIENTATION; POSTURAL BALANCE; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WEIGHT-BEARING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955125135     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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