Flexibility of movement organization in piano performance

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue APR 2013, 2013, Pages

  Furuya, Shinichi ^a   Altenmüller, Eckart ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Degrees of freedom; Fine motor control; Focal dystonia; Optimal control; Redundancy

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; FOCAL HAND DYSTONIA; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; JOINT MOBILITY; KINEMATICS; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR SYSTEM; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; PIANIST; PIANO PERFORMANCE; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SUBCORTEX;

EID: 84933674384     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00173     Document Type: Review

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