Anticipatory postural adjustments stabilise the whole upper-limb prior to a gentle index finger tap

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 59-66

  Caronni, Antonio ^a   Cavallari, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

APAs; Dysmetria; Human; Interaction torques; Motor control; Posture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BODY POSITION; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPINE POSITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 62149133857     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1668-2     Document Type: Article

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