Differential force scaling of fine-graded power grip force in the sensorimotor network

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2453-2465

  Keisker, Birgit ^a   Hepp Reymond, Marie Claude ^b   Blickenstorfer, Armin ^a   Meyer, Martin ^a   Kollias, Spyros S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dynamic force pulses; fMRI; Low force range; Motor control; Motor cortex; Visual feedback

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMOMETRY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; POWER GRIP; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE STRENGTH DYNAMOMETER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650482765     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20676     Document Type: Article

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