Challenges and new approaches to proving the existence of muscle synergies of neural origin

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Kutch, Jason J ^a   Valero Cuevas, Francisco J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADAVERIC EXPERIMENTS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; VECTORS;

BASIS VECTOR; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; EXPERIMENT MODELING; LOW DIMENSIONALITY; LOW-DIMENSIONAL SUBSPACE; MOTOR TASKS; MUSCLE ACTIVATION; MUSCLE COORDINATION; MUSCLE SYNERGIES; NEW APPROACHES;

MUSCLE;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISOMETRICS; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE LENGTH; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; INNERVATION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURAL BALANCE; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84863692758     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002434     Document Type: Article

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