Force level modulates human cortical oscillatory activities

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 275, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 77-80

  Mima, Tatsuya ^a   Simpkins, Nicole ^a   Oluwatimilehin, Tomi ^a   Hallett, Mark ^a  

^a Sect Clin and Exp Neuropsychol   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherence; Electroencephalography power spectra; Force coding; Gamma band; Mu rhythm; Piper rhythm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0032718372     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00734-X     Document Type: Article

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