Tapping performance and underlying wrist muscle activity of non-drummers, drummers, and the world's fastest drummer

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 459, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 69-73

  Fujii, Shinya ^a,b,c   Kudo, Kazutoshi ^b   Ohtsuki, Tatsuyuki ^b   Oda, Shingo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drummer; Electromyography; Practice; Rate limit; Tapping; Tremor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TRAINING; WRIST;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSIC; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME FACTORS; WRIST;

EID: 65749112571     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.04.055     Document Type: Article

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