Impedance control reduces instability that arises from motor noise

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 40, 2009, Pages 12606-12616

  Selen, Luc P J ^a,b   Franklin, David W ^a   Wolpert, Daniel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPEDANCE; KINEMATICS; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ARM; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; JOINT INSTABILITY; JOINTS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURE; ROBOTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349876486     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2826-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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