Higher Nervous Control System in Bipedally Walking Japanese Monkey, Macaca fuscata
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With a long term operant locomotor learning, young Japanese monkeys (M. fuscata) acquire a novel strategy for controlling their lower limb joints that allows them to walk bipedally on a moving treadmill belt with generation of sufficient force to propel the center of gravity forward smoothly and swiftly. The current study was designed to evaluate how these monkeys are capable of controlling their locomotor patterns to the changes in treadmill grade and to the postural and gait perturbation. Our results suggest that the monkeys recruited both reactive and anticipatory control mechanisms to achieve the required walking task.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003