Intrinsic hand muscles and digit independence on the preferred and non-preferred hands of humans

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 564-571

  Reilly, Karen T ^a,b   Hammond, Geoffrey R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Handedness; Independence; Intrinsic hand muscles; Motor control

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTION; ADDUCTION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND MOVEMENT; HAND MUSCLE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; FEMALE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 33747890204     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0397-7     Document Type: Article

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