Force coordination in static manipulation: Discerning the contribution of muscle synergies and cutaneous afferents

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 434, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 234-239

  de Freitas, Paulo Barbosa ^a   Markovic, Goran ^b   Krishnan, Vennila ^a   Jaric, Slobodan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Bidirectional; Force; Grip; Load; Neural control; Unidirectional

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION; FEMALE; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SKIN RECEPTOR; STATIC EXERCISE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 40849151835     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.01.067     Document Type: Article

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