Assessment of across-muscle coherence using multi-unit vs. single-unit recordings

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 207, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 269-282

  Johnston, Jamie A ^a   Formicone, Gabriele ^b   Hamm, Thomas M ^c   Santello, Marco ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Edumedia Labs LLC   (United States)

^c BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Coherence; Common input; EMG; Motor units; Muscle

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MULTICHANNEL RECORDER; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 78549290318     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2455-4     Document Type: Article

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