Directional tuning of single motor units

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 8402-8416

  Herrmann, Uta ^a   Flanders, Martha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arm movement; Directional tuning; Motoneurons; Motor control; Reaching; Single motor unit

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTOID MUSCLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX RECRUITMENT;

EID: 0032531806     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-20-08402.1998     Document Type: Article

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