Learning to control arm stiffness under static conditions

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3344-3350

  Darainy, Mohammad ^a,b   Malfait, Nicole ^b   Gribble, Paul L ^c   Towhidkhah, Farzad ^a   Ostry, David J ^b,d  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROL; ELBOW; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPEDANCE; LEARNING; MODEL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; ROTATION; SHOULDER; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELBOW JOINT; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURE; SHOULDER JOINT; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 8644230084     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00596.2004     Document Type: Article

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