Similarities in the Neural Control of the Shoulder and Elbow Joints Belie Their Structural Differences

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Karduna, Andrew R ^a   Sainburg, Robert L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANGULAR VARIABLE ERROR; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; END POINT ERROR; ERROR; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; KINEMATICS; LINEAR VARIABLE ERROR; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; POSITION; SHOULDER; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ELBOW JOINT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SHOULDER JOINT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867636679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045837     Document Type: Article

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