Identification of oscillations in muscle activity from surface EMG: Reply to Halliday and Farmer

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3548-3549

  Christou, Evangelos ^a,b   Neto, Osmar ^a,b,c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDADE CAMILO CASTELO BRANCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMYOGRAM; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; OSCILLATION; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 77953488693     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00325.2010     Document Type: Letter

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