Table 2 Effects of muscle group (AG-AG or AG-ANT) and task difficulty on pooled coherence (integrated in 3 frequency bands).

From: Standing task difficulty related increase in agonist-agonist and agonist-antagonist common inputs are driven by corticospinal and subcortical inputs respectively

 

Muscle group Main effect

Task difficulty Main effect

Task difficulty* Muscle group Interaction

F(df); p-value

ES

F(df); p-value

ES

F(df); p-value

ES

Low

(0–5 Hz)

F(1,18) = 14.05;

p = < 0.001*

0.44

F(3,54) = 9.01;

p = < 0.001*

0.33

F(3,54) = 5.03;

p = 0.004*

0.22

Medium

(6–15 Hz)

F(1,18) = 27.20;

p = < 0.001*

0.60

F(3,54) = 3.90;

p = 0.014*

0.18

F(3,54) = 1.95;

p = 0.13

0.10

High

(16–40 Hz)

F(1,18) = 22.64;

p = < 0.001*

0.56

F(3,54) = 11.68;

p = < 0.001*

0.39

F(3,54) = 5.94;

p = < 0.001*

0.25

  1. *Significant at p < 0.05.
  2. AG-AG group: Sol-LG, Sol-PL, LG-PL.
  3. AG-ANT group: Sol-TA, LG-TA, RF-BF.
  4. df – degrees of freedom.
  5. ES – effect size (partial eta squared), <0.25 – small and 0.26–0.63 - medium28.
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