Motor variability within a multi-effector system: Experimental and analytical studies of multi-finger production of quick force pulses

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 75-85

  Goodman, Simon R ^a   Shim, Jae Kun ^a   Zatsiorsky, Vladimir M ^a   Latash, Mark L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Finger; Force production; Human; Redundancy; Variability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FINGER; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR SYSTEM; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT;

EID: 20944433066     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-004-2147-z     Document Type: Article

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