Feedback responses rapidly scale with the urgency to correct for external perturbations

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1323-1332

  Crevecoeur, F ^a   Kurtzer, I ^b   Bourke, T ^a   Scott, S H ^a,c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Flexible feedback control; Long latency reflex; Motor control; Upper limb

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROFEEDBACK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FLEXIBLE FEEDBACK CONTROL; LONG-LATENCY REFLEX; MOTOR CONTROL; UPPER LIMB;

ADULT; ARM; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TORQUE;

EID: 84884196045     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00216.2013     Document Type: Article

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