Effect of muscle relaxation in the foot on simultaneous muscle contraction in the contralateral hand

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 633, Issue , 2016, Pages 252-256

  Kato, Kouki ^a,b   Kanosue, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contralateral; Coordination; Inhibition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOOT MUSCLE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; WRIST; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FOOT; HAND; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOOT; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84988978762     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2016.09.019     Document Type: Article

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