Contributions of descending and ascending pathways to corticomuscular coherence in humans

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 589, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 3789-3800

  Witham, Claire L ^a   Riddle, C Nicholas ^b   Baker, Mark R ^a   Baker, Stuart N ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PRECISION GRIP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; FEMALE; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960823685     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2011.211045     Document Type: Article

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