Basic features of phasic activation for reaching in vertical planes

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 67-79

  Flanders, Martha ^a   Pellegrini, John J ^a   Geisler, Scott D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arm movement; Electromyography; Human; Joint torque; Neuromuscular pattern generation; Reaching

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER;

EID: 0029890764     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00241376     Document Type: Article

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