Time-dependent structure in the discharge rate of human motor units

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 113, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1325-1338

  Vaillancourt, David E ^a   Larsson, Lars ^b   Newell, Karl M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Force variability; Motor unit; Time series; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FINGER; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VISION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; KINETICS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; VISION;

EID: 0036340614     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(02)00167-0     Document Type: Article

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