Control of grip force during restraint of an object held between finger and thumb: Responses of muscle and joint afferents from the digits

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 172-184

  Macefield, Vaughan G ^a,b   Johansson, Roland S ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hand; Human; Joint afferents; Muscle afferents; Precision grip; Sensorimotor integration

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; FORCE; HAND GRIP; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MICROELECTRODE; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; THUMB; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 0029864971     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00242914     Document Type: Article

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