Threshold control of arm posture and movement adaptation to load

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 175, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 726-744

  Foisy, Martin ^a   Feldman, Anatol G ^a  

^a Rehabilitation Institute of Montreal   (Canada)

Author keywords

Learning; Motor control; Posture movement problem; Threshold arm configuration; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORKING MEMORY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSTURE; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 33750839343     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0591-7     Document Type: Article

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