Ankle joint movements are encoded by both cutaneous and muscle afferents in humans

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 221, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 167-176

  Aimonetti, Jean Marc ^a   Roll, Jean Pierre ^a   Hospod, Valérie ^a   Ribot Ciscar, Edith ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Microneurography; Muscle spindle; Population coding writing; Proprioception; Skin receptor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; KINETICS; MECHANORECEPTOR; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE SPINDLE; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SKIN RECEPTOR; SKIN SURFACE; VELOCITY;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANKLE JOINT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORIENTATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; REACTION TIME; SKIN; WRIST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866002957     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3160-2     Document Type: Article

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