We Are Upright-Walking Cats: Human Limbs as Sensory Antennae During Locomotion | Zendy

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We Are Upright-Walking Cats: Human Limbs as Sensory Antennae During Locomotion

Author(s) -

Gregory E. P. Pearcey,

E. Paul Zehr

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

physiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.14

H-Index - 125

eISSN - 1548-9213

pISSN - 1548-9221

DOI - 10.1152/physiol.00008.2019

Subject(s) - sensory system , bipedalism , cats , physical medicine and rehabilitation , foot (prosody) , anatomy , neuroscience , biology , medicine , linguistics , philosophy

Humans and cats share many characteristics pertaining to the neural control of locomotion, which has enabled the comprehensive study of cutaneous feedback during locomotion. Feedback from discrete skin regions on both surfaces of the human foot has revealed that neuromechanical responses are highly topographically organized and contribute to "sensory guidance" of our limbs during locomotion.

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