Finger interactions studied with transcranial magnetic stimulation during multi-finger force production tasks

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1445-1455

  Danion, Frédéric ^a   Latash, Mark L ^b   Li, Sheng ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Finger; Force; Human; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FINGER; FLEXOR DIGITORUM SUPERFICIALIS; HAND FUNCTION; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0041344624     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(03)00105-6     Document Type: Article

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