Neuromuscular and biomechanical factors codetermine the solution to motor redundancy in rhythmic multijoint arm movement

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 189, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 421-434

  De Rugy, Aymar ^a   Riek, Stephan ^a   Oytam, Yalchin ^a   Carroll, Timothy J ^a   Davoodi, Rahman ^b   Carson, Richard G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Motor Control; Neuromuscular Constraints; Rhythmic multijoint arm movement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR COORDINATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY;

ADULT; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; ELBOW JOINT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 48349089931     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1437-2     Document Type: Article

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