Effect of aging on inter-joint synergies during machine-paced assembly tasks

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 231, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 249-256

  Xu, Xu ^a   Qin, Jin ^b   Catena, Robert D ^c   Faber, Gert S ^d   Lin, Jia Hua ^a  

^a LIBERTY MUTUAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SAFETY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE   (United States)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Motor coordination; Redundancy; Uncontrolled manifold (UCM); Upper extremity movement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; KINEMATICS; MACHINE PACED ASSEMBLY TASK; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNCONTROLLED MANIFOLD ANALYSIS; VARIANCE; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; ELBOW; JOINT; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SHOULDER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WORK; WRIST; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELBOW JOINT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINTS; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SHOULDER JOINT; UPPER EXTREMITY; WORK; WRIST JOINT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886769819     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3688-9     Document Type: Article

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