Differential after-effects of bimanual activity on mirror movements

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 416, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 117-122

  Vardy, Alistair N ^a   Daffertshofer, Andreas ^a   Ridderikhoff, Arne ^a   Beek, Peter J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bimanual coordination; EMG; Mirror movements

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR SKILLS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 33947247394     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.01.064     Document Type: Article

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