Mirror movements and the role of handedness: Isometric grip forces changes

Motor Control

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 16-28

  Uttner, Ingo ^a   Kraft, Eduard ^b   Nowak, Dennis A ^c   Müller, Friedemann ^d   Philipp, Jens ^e   Zierdt, Andreas ^f   Hermsdörfer, Joachim ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Section Neurological Research and Behavioral Neurology   (Germany)

^d Division of Neurology   (Germany)

^e Ingenieurbüro Dr Philipp   (Germany)

^f KLINIKUM BOGENHAUSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bimanual coordination; Handedness; Mirror movements

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; FORCE TRANSDUCER; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND FUNCTION; HAND GRIP; HAND MOVEMENT; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HANDEDNESS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; REFERENCE VALUES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE;

EID: 33846297364     PISSN: 10871640     EISSN: 15432696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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