Identifying representative synergy matrices for describing muscular activation patterns during multidirectional reaching in the horizontal plane

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1532-1542

  Muceli, Silvia ^a   Boye, Andreas Trøllund ^a   D'Avella, Andrea ^b   Farina, Dario ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELBOW JOINT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SHOULDER JOINT; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 77949681024     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00559.2009     Document Type: Article

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