SYSTEMATIC REVIEW article

Front. Psychol.

Sec. Performance Science

Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1386273

This article is part of the Research TopicInternational Symposium on Performance Science 2023View all 18 articles

Antagonistic muscular co-contraction's benefits for skilled, healthy piano technique: a scoping review

Provisionally accepted
  • Royal College of Music, London, United Kingdom

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

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Keywords: Co-contraction, Piano technique, human movement, PRNDs, Biomechanics

Received: 14 Feb 2024; Accepted: 28 Feb 2025.

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* Correspondence: Cobi Ashkenazi, Royal College of Music, London, United Kingdom

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