Computer simulation of post-spike facilitation in spike-triggered averages of rectified EMG

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1391-1406

  Baker, S N ^a   Lemon, R N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FACILITATION; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE;

EID: 0031790063     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.80.3.1391     Document Type: Article

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