The number and choice of muscles impact the results of muscle synergy analyses

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Steele, Katherine M ^a,b   Tresch, Matthew C ^b,c,d   Perreault, Eric J ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Keywords: muscle synergy; Musculoskeletal model; Nonnegative matrix factorization; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ISOMETRIC FORCE; LOW-DIMENSIONAL SPACES; MUSCLE ACTIVATION; MUSCLE SYNERGIES; MUSCULOSKELETAL MODEL; NONNEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION; SIMULATION; UPPER-EXTREMITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GROUP THEORY; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; SET THEORY;

MUSCLE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NOISE;

EID: 84884728035     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2013.00105     Document Type: Article

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