Human standing is modified by an unconscious integration of congruent sensory and motor signals

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 590, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 5783-5794

  Luu, Billy L ^a   Inglis, J Timothy ^a,b   Huryn, Thomas P ^a   Van der Loos, H F Machiel ^a   Croft, Elizabeth A ^a   Blouin, Jean Sébastien ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY MOVEMENT; COMPUTER; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; ROTATION; SOLEUS MUSCLE; STANDING; STOCHASTIC VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; VESTIBULAR EVOKED POTENTIAL; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURE; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; ROTATION; SENSE OF COHERENCE; TORQUE; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIALS; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH; WALKING;

EID: 84869748973     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2012.230334     Document Type: Article

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