Muscle modes and synergies during voluntary body sway

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 179, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 533-550

  Danna Dos Santos, Alessander ^a   Slomka, Kajetan ^b   Zatsiorsky, Vladimir M ^a   Latash, Mark L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF SPORT SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Balance; Electromyogram; Human; Muscle mode; Posture; Sway; Synergy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STEADY STATE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VOLITION;

EID: 34249008571     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0812-0     Document Type: Article

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