The effect of motor overflow on bimanual asymmetric force coordination

• Published in: Experimental brain research Vol. 235; no. 4; pp. 1097 - 1105
• Main Authors: Cunningham, David A., Roelle, Sarah M., Allexandre, Didier, Potter-Baker, Kelsey A., Sankarasubramanian, Vishwanath, Knutson, Jayme S., Yue, Guang H., Machado, Andre G., Plow, Ela B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.04.2017; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Analysis of Variance; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; brain; Care and treatment; Diagnosis; Electromyography; Evoked Potentials, Motor - physiology; Female; Functional Laterality - physiology; Hand; Humans; Hypotheses; Magnetic brain stimulation; Male; Motor Cortex - physiology; Movement - physiology; muscles; Neural Inhibition - physiology; Neurology; Neurosciences; Psychomotor disorders; Psychomotor Performance - physiology; Pyramidal Tracts - physiology; Research Article; Statistics as Topic; Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation; Young Adult; United States; United States > US; Inter-hemispheric inhibition; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Intra-cortical inhibition; Bimanual interference; Motor overflow

Motor overflow, typically described in the context of unimanual movements, refers to the natural tendency for a ‘resting’ limb to move during movement of the opposite limb and is thought to be influenced by inter-hemispheric interactions and intra-cortical networks within the ‘resting’ hemisphere. I...