Trajectories of arm pointing movements on the sagittal plane vary with both direction and speed

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 498-503

  Papaxanthis, Charalambos ^a   Pozzo, Thierry ^a   Schieppati, Marco ^b,c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arm movements; Dynamics; Electromyograph; Gravity; Kinematics; Motor control

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARM; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTOID MUSCLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FOREARM; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY;

EID: 0037328314     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-002-1327-y     Document Type: Article

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