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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine Volume 2012, Article ID 451938, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2012/451938 Research Article Enhancing the Signal of Corticomuscular Coherence Cristiano Micheli1, 2 and Christoph Braun2, 3, 4 1 Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6525 EN Nijmegen, The Netherlands 2 MEG-Center, University of Tubingen, Otfried-Muller-Straße 47, 72076 Tubingen, Germany ¨ ¨ ¨ 3 Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento, Via delle Regole 101, 38100 Trento, Italy 4 Department of Cognitive and Educational Sciences (DiSCoF), University of Trento, Via delle Regole 101, 38100 Trento, Italy Correspondence should be addressed to Cristiano Micheli, michelic72@ Received 18 November 2011; Revised 7 February 2012; Accepted 20 February 2012 Academic Editor: Mingzhou Ding Copyright © 2012 C. Micheli and C. Braun. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The availability of multichannel neuroimaging techniques, such as MEG and EEG, provides us with detailed topographical information of the recorded magnetic and electric signals and therefore gives us a good overview on the concomitant signals generated in the brain. To assess the location and the temporal dynamics of neuronal sources with noninvasive recordings, reconstruction tools such as beamformers have been shown to be useful. In the current study, we are in particular interested in cortical motor control involved in the isometri