Evidence for freely chosen pedalling rate during submaximal cycling to be a robust innate voluntary motor rhythm

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 186, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 365-373

  Hansen, Ernst Albin ^a   Ohnstad, Ann Elisabeth ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF SPORT SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Central pattern generator; Mechanosensation; Voluntary motor behaviour

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY FUNCTION; CYCLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

BICYCLING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EXERCISE TEST; EXERTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 43449110439     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-1240-5     Document Type: Article

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