The potential of corticomuscular and intermuscular coherence for research on human motor control

Affiliations

¹ School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales Sydney, NSW, Australia ; Black Dog Institute Sydney, NSW, Australia ; MOVE Research Institute, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Tjeerd W Boonstra. Front Hum Neurosci. 2013.

. 2013 Dec 10:7:855.

doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00855. eCollection 2013.

¹ School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales Sydney, NSW, Australia ; Black Dog Institute Sydney, NSW, Australia ; MOVE Research Institute, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands.

No abstract available

Keywords: EMG; coherence analysis; computational modeling; descending pathways; motor neurons; oscillatory activity.

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