Functional significance of stiffness in adaptation of multijoint arm movements to stable and unstable dynamics

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 145-157

  Franklin, David W ^a,b   Burdet, Etienne ^c   Osu, Rieko ^a   Kawato, Mitsuo ^a   Milner, Theodore E ^b  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Endpoint stiffness; Impedance control; Inverse dynamics model; Motor learning; Stability

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT MOBILITY; JOINT STABILITY; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINTS; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MOVEMENT;

EID: 0038235700     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-003-1443-3     Document Type: Article

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