Spinal motor outputs during step-to-step transitions of diverse human gaits

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  La Scaleia, Valentina ^a,b   Ivanenko, Yuri P ^b   Zelik, Karl E ^b   Lacquaniti, Francesco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Backward; EMG; Motoneurons; Spinal mapping; Tiptoe; Uphill; Walking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; WALKING;

EID: 84901304186     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00305     Document Type: Article

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