Obstacle avoidance locomotor tasks: Adaptation, memory and skill transfer

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1613-1621

  Kloter, Evelyne ^a   Dietz, Volker ^a  

^a BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Human quadrupedal coordination; Reflex electromyogram responses; Somatosensory information; Spinal neural activity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY FEEDBACK; BIILATERAL OBSTACLE STEPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEMALE; FOOT CLEARANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE REFLEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORIMOTOR MEMORY; STANDING; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNILATERAL OBSTACLE STEPPING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ARM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOOT; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFLEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIBIAL NERVE; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861229585     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08066.x     Document Type: Article

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