Neuro-motor control and feed-forward models of locomotion in humans

• Main Author: Nadia Dominici (auth)
• Other Authors: Federica Tamburella (auth), Marco Iosa (auth), Leonardo Gizzi (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; Cerebellum; Walking; Locomotion; Brain; Gait; Spinal Cord; central pattern generator; Feedback; feedforward; internal model
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Locomotion involves many different muscles and the need of controlling several degrees of freedom. Despite the Central Nervous System can finely control the contraction of individual muscles, emerging evidences indicate that strategies for the reduction of the complexity of movement and for compensa...