The timing of control signals underlying fast point-to-point arm movements

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 137, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 411-423

  Ghafouri, M ^a   Feldman, A G ^a  

^a Rehabilitation Institute of Montreal   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arm movements; Control signals; Equilibrium point hypothesis; Movement corrections; Muscle torques; Perturbation methods; Posture; Reaching

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE REFLEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; TORQUE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARM; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; ISOTONIC CONTRACTION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; PROPRIOCEPTION;

EID: 0035081134     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210000643     Document Type: Article

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