title: Model for the continuous description of motion and position.
abstract: A model is suggested for the continuous description of cyclical motion. The model is an application of the sinus equation and derives from the selection of a representative point of a bodily part for which movement is to be described, the identification of a reference axis, and the continuous representation of time. Although restricted to cyclical motion, the model seems useful for describing many behaviors of quite different species by means of the same descriptive elements.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007699:Kinesthesis; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009949:Orientation