Doing better than your best: Loud auditory stimulation yields improvements in maximal voluntary force

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 237-243

  Anzak, Anam ^a   Tan, Huiling ^a   Pogosyan, Alek ^a   Brown, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory; Force; Premotor reaction time; Startle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FORCE; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; CUES; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78951484041     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2474-1     Document Type: Article

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