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Álvaro Costa-García1, Andrés Úbeda2, Shingo Shimoda1

  • 1Intelligent Behavior Control Unit, CBS-Toyota Collaboration Center, RIKEN Institute, Nagoya 463-0003, Japan.

Brain Sciences
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PubMed

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force modulationhuman cyclingmotor controlneural adaptations

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