Increased voluntary drive is associated with changes in common oscillations from 13 to 60 Hz of interference but not rectified electromyography

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 348-354

  Neto, Osmar P ^a,b   Baweja, Harsimran S ^a   Christou, Evangelos A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDADE CAMILO CASTELO BRANCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Beta band; Cross wavelet; Oscillations; Piper band; Rectification

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTION; ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; DRIVE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956026975     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21687     Document Type: Article

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