TY - GEN
ID - cogprints8982
UR - http://cogprints.org/8982/
A1 - Tan, Prof. Dr. Uner
Y1 - 2012/10/25/
N2 - Two cases with quadrupedal locomotion (QL) were presented. In both cases, cognitive and psychiatric functions were normal and, no neurological de?cits were observed, except for a sequel paralysis of left leg in Case 2. It was suggested that human QL (1) should not be considered as an epiphenomenon caused by neurodevelopmental malformation and
ataxia, but (2) may be considered as a re-emergence of the ancestral diagonal QL, and (3) it may spontaneously emerge in humans with entirely normal brains, by taking advantage
of neural networks such as central pattern generators that have been preserved for about 400 million years.
PB - Frontiers
KW - Uner Tan syndrome
KW - quadrupedalism
KW - neural networks
KW - self-organization
KW - evolution
KW - ataxia
KW - cerebellum
TI - Human quadrupedalism is not an epiphenomenon caused
by neurodevelopmental malformation and ataxia
SP - 1
AV - public
EP - 3
ER -