Flexible fusimotor control of muscle spindle feedback during a variety of natural movements

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 80, Issue C, 1989, Pages 87-101

  Hulliger, M ^a   Durmuller N ^a   Prochazka, A ^b   Trend, P ^c  

^a University of Zurich Brain Research Institute   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chronic recording; Efferent control; Experimental simulation; Fusimotor neuron; Iterative approximation; Motor adaptation; Motor control; Muscle spindle; Voluntary movement

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CAT; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROMYOGRAM; GAMMA NERVE FIBER; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

EID: 0024893175     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: 18757855     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(08)62202-5     Document Type: Article

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