Role of cocontraction in arm movement accuracy

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2396-2405

  Gribble, Paul L ^a   Mullin, Lucy I ^a   Cothros, Nicholas ^a   Mattar, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENERGY TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPEDANCE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SHOULDER;

EID: 0037880377     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01020.2002     Document Type: Article

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