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Synergism in the control of force and movement of the forearm

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  1. Department of Medical and Physiological Physics, Buys Ballot Laboratory, University of Utrecht, P.O. Box 80,000, 3508 TA, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Jan Denier van der Gon, Toine Tax, Stan Gielen & Casper Erkelens

  2. Department of Medical Physics and Biophysics, University of Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Toine Tax & Stan Gielen

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van der Gon, J.D., Tax, T., Gielen, S., Erkelens, C. (1991). Synergism in the control of force and movement of the forearm. In: Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Volume 118. Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology, vol 118. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0031482

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