The investigation sought to recognize the strategies of effector organization used by the human operator, from a detailed multi-level analysis of the response in a repetitive speed skill, hand cranking. In the experiment motion photography, a strain gauge record of the force exerted on the handle of the crank, and an electromyographic analysis of the activity of the principal agonist and antagonist muscles about the wrist, elbow and shoulder joints of the arm were employed to record the details of the on-going response.
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