Grip-force responses to unanticipated object loading: Load direction reveals body- and gravity-referenced intrinsic task variables

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 142-150

  Häger Ross, Charlotte ^a   Cole, Kelly J ^b   Johansson, Roland S ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Friction; Gravity; Grip force; Human; Motor control

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRICTION; GEOMETRY; GRAVITY; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FORCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEIGHT BEARING;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; GRAVITATION; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0030008875     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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