Muscle coordination and force variability during static and dynamic tracking tasks

Human Movement Science

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1039-1051

  Svendsen, Jacob H ^a,b   Samani, Afshin ^a   Mayntzhusen, Klaus ^a,c   Madeleine, Pascal ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b ROESSINGH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Netherlands)

^c DELTA Danish Electronics Light & Acoustics   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Mutual information; Pursuit and compensatory display; Sample entropy; Task differences; Wrist movements

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WRIST; WRIST MOVEMENT;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRONATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PURSUIT, SMOOTH; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SUPINATION; WRIST JOINT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80855132873     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: 18727646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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