Enslaving effects in multi-finger force production

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 187-195

  Zatsiorsky, Vladimir M ^a   Li, Zong Ming ^b   Latash, Mark L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WALSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dexterity; Enslaving; Fingers; Motor redundancy; Multi finger task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISTAL PHALANX; FINGER; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

EID: 0034010283     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002219900261     Document Type: Article

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