Does my step look big in this? A visual illusion leads to safer stepping behaviour

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Elliot, David B ^a   Vale, Anna ^a   Whitaker, David ^a   Buckley, John G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLING; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 84887212634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004577     Document Type: Article

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