Ability to discriminate movements at the ankle and knee is joint specific

Percept Mot Skills. 1999 Dec;89(3 Pt 1):1037-41. doi: 10.2466/pms.1999.89.3.1037.

Abstract

Measures of discrimination for movements of different extent at the ankle (inversion) and knee (flexion) were obtained for the right and left legs from 59 male footballers. The finding of significant association between discriminability scores at common joints was interpreted in terms of the motor program.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Ankle Joint / physiology*
  • Female
  • Fixation, Ocular / physiology
  • Humans
  • Knee Joint / physiology*
  • Male
  • Movement / physiology*
  • Psychophysics
  • Random Allocation
  • Visual Perception / physiology*