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Title:

Light touch for balance: influence of a time-varying external driving signal

Document type:
Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Author(s):
A.M. Wing; L. Johannsen; S. Endo
Abstract:
Sensory information about body sway is used to drive corrective muscle action to keep the body's centre of mass located over the base of support provided by the feet. Loss of vision, by closing the eyes, usually results in increased sway as indexed by fluctuations (i.e. standard deviation, s.d.) in the velocity of a marker at C7 on the neck, s.d. dC7. Variability in the rate of change of centre of pressure (s.d. dCoP), which indexes corrective muscle action, also increases during upright standin...     »
Journal title:
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Year:
2011
Journal volume:
366
Journal issue:
1581
Pages contribution:
3133-3141
Reviewed:
ja
Fulltext / DOI:
doi:10.1098/rstb.2011.0169
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