Functional Cortico-Muscular Coupling During Upright Standing in Athletes and Nonathletes: A Coherence Electroencephalographic-Electromyographic Study

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 917-927

  Vecchio, Fabrizio ^a,b   Percio, Claudio Del ^a   Marzano, Nicola ^b   Fiore, Antonio ^c   Toran, Giancarlo ^c   Aschieri, Pierluigi ^d,e   Gallamini, Michele ^f   Cabras, Jessica ^g   Rossini, Paolo Maria ^a,h,i   Babiloni, Claudio ^a,i,j   Eusebi, Fabrizio ^b,k  

^a IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c Federazione Italiana di Scherma   (Italy)

^d Federazione Italiana Judo Lotta Karate ed Arti Marziali FIJLKAM   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^f RGM   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

ⁱ IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^k IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

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Author keywords

electroencephalographic rhythms; electromyogram; spectral coherence; sport science; stabilogram

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSITION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMB MOVEMENT; MUSCLE TRAINING; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PROPRIOCEPTION; STABILOGRAPHY; STANDING; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARTIAL ARTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 51049116811     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.122.4.917     Document Type: Article

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