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

Dokumenttyp:
Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Autor(en):
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...     »
Zeitschriftentitel:
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Jahr:
2011
Band / Volume:
366
Heft / Issue:
1581
Seitenangaben Beitrag:
3133-3141
Reviewed:
ja
Volltext / DOI:
doi:10.1098/rstb.2011.0169
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