Interaction of involuntary post-contraction activity with locomotor movements

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 255-260

  Ivanenko, Y P ^a   Wright, W G ^b   Gurfinkel, V S ^b   Horak, F ^b   Cordo, P ^b  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATION; EYELID CLOSURE; FEMALE; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; STANDING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRUNK; WALKING;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME FACTORS; VOLITION;

EID: 32344452096     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-0324-3     Document Type: Article

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