Quantitative evaluation of muscle synergy models: A single-trial task decoding approach

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue FEB, 2013, Pages

  Delis, Ioannis ^a,b   Berret, Bastien ^a,f   Pozzo, Thierry ^a,c,d   Panzeri, Stefano ^a,e  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^d Université de Bourgogne   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^f Universite Paris Sud   (France)

Author keywords

Arm movement; Muscle synergies; Reaching; Single trial analysis; Task decoding

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENTS; BUILDING BLOCKES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK; DECODING METRIC; DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC SIGNAL; MUSCLE ACTIVITIES; MUSCLE PATTERN; MUSCLE SYNERGIES; POINTING TASKS; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; REACHING; SIMILAR NUMBERS; SINGLE-TRIAL ANALYSIS; TASK IDENTIFICATION; TASK SPACE; TIME VARYING; TOTAL VARIANCE;

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; DECODING; MUSCLE;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

ALGORITHM; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SYNERGISM; SIMULATION;

EID: 84873907655     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2013.00008     Document Type: Article

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