Timing of muscle activation in a hand movement sequence

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 803-815

  Klein Breteler, Mary D ^a,b   Simura, Katarzyna J ^a   Flanders, Martha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Fingerspelling; Individuation; Muscle synergy; Temporal synergy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND MOVEMENT; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPELLING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SIGN LANGUAGE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 33947199401     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhk033     Document Type: Article

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