Muscle synergies in neuroscience and robotics: From input-space to task-space perspectives

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue APR 2013, 2013, Pages

  Alessandro, Cristiano ^a   Delis, Ioannis ^b,c,e   Nori, Francesco ^b   Panzeri, Stefano ^b,c   Berret, Bastien ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dimensionality reduction; Modularity; Motor control; Muscle synergies; Review; Robotics; Task space

Indexed keywords

DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION; MODULARITY; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE SYNERGIES; TASK-SPACE;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; REVIEWS; ROBOTICS;

MUSCLE;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84875974591     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2013.00043     Document Type: Review

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