Feeling in control of your footsteps: Conscious gait monitoring and the auditory consequences of footsteps

Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 184-192

  Menzer, Fritz ^a   Brooks, Anna ^a,b   Halje, Pär ^a   Faller, Christof ^a   Vetterli, Martin ^a   Blanke, Olaf ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agency; Auditory; Consciousness; Gait; Motor awareness; Self; Sensorimotor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AWARENESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING SPEED;

EID: 79961008025     PISSN: 17588928     EISSN: 17588936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17588921003743581     Document Type: Article

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