Corticomuscular coherence during bilateral isometric arm voluntary activity in healthy humans

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 107, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2154-2162

  Perez, Monica A ^a   Soteropoulos, Demetris S ^b   Baker, Stuart N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Band; Corticospinal drive; Oscillations; Primary motor cortex; Sensorimotor

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; ELBOW FLEXION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FINGER; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ARM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SENSE OF COHERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859783546     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00722.2011     Document Type: Article

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