ArticleExperimental brain research2018
Early manifestation of arm-leg coordination during stepping on a surface in human neonates.
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- Exploring the cortical involvement in sensorimotor integration during early stages of independent walking.Experimental brain research · 2025Article
- Muscle responses to limb block during spontaneous movements in infants.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Left-Right Locomotor Coordination in Human Neonates.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
- Whole Body Coordination for Self-Assistance in Locomotion.Frontiers in neurorobotics · 2022Article
- Measurement and Analysis of Human Infant Crawling for Rehabilitation: A Narrative Review.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Review
- Maturation of the Locomotor Circuitry in Children With Cerebral Palsy.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2020Review
- Muscle Synergies and Coherence Networks Reflect Different Modes of Coordination During Walking.Frontiers in physiology · 2020Article
- Emergence of Different Gaits in Infancy: Relationship Between Developing Neural Circuitries and Changing Biomechanics.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2020Review
- Muscle Responses to Passive Joint Movements in Infants During the First Year of Life.Frontiers in physiology · 2019Article
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Abstract
The accomplishment of mature locomotor movements relies upon the integrated coordination of the lower and upper limbs and the trunk. Human adults normally swing their arms and a quadrupedal limb coordination persists during bipedal walking despite a strong corticospinal control of the upper extremities that allows to uncouple this connection during voluntary activities. Here we investigated arm-leg coordination during stepping responses on a surface in human neonates. In eight neonates, we found the overt presence of alternating arm-leg oscillations, the arms moving up and down in alternation with ipsilateral lower limb movements. These neonates moved the diagonal limbs together, and the peak of the arm-to-trunk angle (i.e., maximum vertical excursion of the arm) occurred around the end of the ipsilateral stance phase, as it occurs during typical adult walking. Although episodes of arm-leg coordination were sporadic in our sample of neonates, their presence provides significant evidence for a neural coupling between the upper and lower limbs during early ontogenesis of locomotion in humans.
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