Motor control for bilateral muscular contractions in humans

Japanese Journal of Physiology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 487-498

  Oda, Shingo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bilateral contraction; Common drive; Electromyographic activity; Human muscle; Movement related cortical potentials

Indexed keywords

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; REVIEW; RIGHT HANDEDNESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0031422166     PISSN: 0021521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2170/jjphysiol.47.487     Document Type: Review

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