Kinematic and gait similarities between crawling human infants and other quadruped mammals

Crawling on hands and knees is an early pattern of human infant locomotion, which offers an interesting way of studying quadrupedalism in one of its simplest form. We investigate how crawling human infants compare to other quadruped mammals, especially primates. We present quantitative data on both...

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Main Authors: Ludovic eRighetti, Anna eNylén, Kerstin eRosander, Auke eIjspeert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fneur.2015.00017/full