Correction: Limitations of the spike-triggered averaging for estimating motor unit twitch force: A theoretical analysis (PLoS ONE (2014) 9, 3 (e92390) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092390);Limitations of the spike-triggered averaging for estimating motor unit twitch force: A theoretical analysis

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  Negro, Francesco ^a   Yavuz, Utku Ş ^a   Farina, Dario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ABDUCTOR DIGITI MINIMI MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FIRST DORSAL INTEROSSEUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE TWITCH; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPIKE; SPIKE TRIGGERED AVERAGING; THEORETICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL STUDY; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; WAVEFORM; ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE CELL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 84899794033     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101614     Document Type: Erratum

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