. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Feb 23.

Published in final edited form as: Exp Brain Res. 2004 Mar 13;157(4):457–467. doi: 10.1007/s00221-004-1859-4

Table 1.

Sharing total normal and tangential force among individual fingers, %. Mean ± SD. Mean and SD values were calculated over all handle positions for all subjects

Task moment	Normal force (%)				Tangential force (%)

	I	M	R	L	I	M	R	L
2.0 Nm	68.4±4.3	14.9±2.4	11.8±2.1	4.9±1.2	50.0±16.1	19.0^±12.1*	6.5±6.3	9.6±3.0
1.0 Nm	69.0±4.0	14.8±2.4	11.4±1.9	4.8±1.0	48.0±16.3	14.2±11.8	6.3±4.0	8.8±2.5
−1.0 Nm	14.1^±4.1*	15.9^±2.5*	36.1±1.8	34.0±1.0	18.3±17.7	23.3±12.0	27.0±4.4	28.2^±2.7*
−2.0 Nm	12.2±4.3	17.3±2.4	35.4±2.0	35.0±1.0	15.3±18.2	26.6±11.7	26.5±4.3	31.1±2.7

Significant (p<0.05) differences of finger force sharing between 2.0 Nm and 1.0 Nm or between −2.0 Nm and −1.0 Nm