Spatiotemporal characteristics of muscle patterns for ball catching

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  D'Andola, M ^a   Cesqui, B ^a   Portone, A ^a,b   Fernandez, L ^a,c   Lacquaniti, F ^a,b   d'Avella, A ^a  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

EMG activity; Interception; Intermittency; Muscle synergies; Time to contact

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRATEGIES; INTERMITTENCY; MUSCLE SYNERGIES; SENSORIMOTOR COORDINATIONS; SOURCES OF INFORMATIONS; SPATIOTEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; TIME-TO-CONTACT; VISUAL INFORMATION;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; SATELLITE INTERCEPTION;

MUSCLE;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SYNERGISM; SHOULDER; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 84880628043     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2013.00107     Document Type: Article

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