It's the Way You Walk: Kinematic Specification of Vulnerability to Attack

People Watching: Social, Perceptual, and Neurophysiological Studies of Body Perception

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Johnston, Lucy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Functional perspective; Kinematic fingerprints; Kinematic specification; Motion training; Movement style; Vulnerability to attack

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921258621     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195393705.003.0013     Document Type: Chapter

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