Between-subject variability of muscle synergies during a complex motor skill

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue DEC, 2012, Pages

  Frère, Julien ^a   Hug, François ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU MAINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF CORRELATION; CROSS CORRELATIONS; CYCLIC MOVEMENTS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC; GIANT SWING; HIGH BAR; MOTOR SKILLS; MOTOR TASKS; NEUROMUSCULAR CONTROL; NONNEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; TRUNK MUSCLE; TWO-COMPONENT; UPPER LIMBS;

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; MUSCLE; VECTORS;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE FUNCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NON NEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION ALGORITHM; NORMAL HUMAN; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPORT; TRAINING;

EID: 84871290878     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2012.00099     Document Type: Article

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