{"id":8351,"date":"2019-05-22T16:06:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/locomotion\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:06:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:46","slug":"locomotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/locomotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Locomotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To move from place to place by changing the body\u201awas base of support. &nbsp;There are many forms of locomotion in humans. &nbsp;Locomotion that involves moving from one foot to the other is referred to as bipedal locomotion and includes movement patterns such as walking, running, galloping, jumping, and skipping. &nbsp; Quadrupedal locomotion involves moving on four limbs (the hands and either the knees or feet). &nbsp;Crawling is an example of quadrupedal locomotion in humans.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"central_pattern_generator_-cpg-\">Central pattern generator (CPG)<\/a>, <a href=\"crawling\">Crawling<\/a>, <a href=\"cruising\">Cruising<\/a>, <a href=\"digitigrade_locomotion\">Digitigrade locomotion<\/a>, <a href=\"gait\">Gait<\/a>, <a href=\"galloping\">Galloping<\/a>, <a href=\"gross_motor_abilities\">Gross motor abilities<\/a>, <a href=\"hopping\">Hopping<\/a>, <a href=\"pelvis-pelvic_girdle\">Pelvis\/pelvic girdle<\/a>, <a href=\"plantigrade_locomotion\">Plantigrade locomotion<\/a>, <a href=\"running\">Running<\/a>, <a href=\"skipping\">Skipping<\/a>, <a href=\"walking\">Walking<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To move from place to place by changing the body\u201awas base of support. &nbsp;There are many forms of locomotion in humans. &nbsp;Locomotion that involves moving from one foot to the other is referred to as bipedal locomotion and includes movement patterns such as walking, running, galloping, jumping, and skipping. &nbsp; Quadrupedal locomotion involves moving on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/locomotion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Locomotion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}