Corticomuscular and bilateral EMG coherence reflect distinct aspects of neural synchronization

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 463, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-21

  Boonstra, Tjeerd W ^a,b   van Wijk, Bernadette C M ^c   Praamstra, Peter ^d   Daffertshofer, Andreas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b BLACK DOG INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Common drive; EEG; Functional connectivity; Motor control; Time frequency analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE FORCE; NERVE PROJECTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRECISION GRIP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; CUES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 68149100795     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.07.043     Document Type: Article

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