Synchrony of hand-foot coupled movements: Is it attained by mutual feedback entrainment or by independent linkage of each limb to a common rhythm generator?

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Baldissera, Fausto G ^a   Cavallari, Paolo ^a   Esposti, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BIOMECHANICS; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FOOT; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR COORDINATION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; WEIGHT BEARING; WRIST;

ADULT; AGED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; FOOT; HAND; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OSCILLOMETRY; PERIODICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33751100637     PISSN: 14712202     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-7-70     Document Type: Article

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