Force synergies for multifingered grasping

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 457-467

  Santello, Marco ^a,b   Soechting, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Force Control; Grasping; Human; Muscle synergies

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FINGER; FORCE; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THUMB;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FINGERS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THUMB;

EID: 0033855208     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210000420     Document Type: Article

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