Low-level voluntary input enhances corticospinal excitability during ankle dorsiflexion neuromuscular electrical stimulation in healthy young adults

• Akiko Yamaguchi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Meguroku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine I, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1808-2369

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• Atsushi Sasaki,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Meguroku, Tokyo, Japan, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Chiyodaku, Tokyo, Japan, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan

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• Milos R. Popovic,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, KITE Research Institute, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute—University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, CRANIA, University Health Network & University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Matija Milosevic,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7629-1850

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• Kimitaka Nakazawa

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nakazawa@idaten.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Meguroku, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5483-8659

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