Myoelectric control is filled with potential to significantly change human–robot interaction
due to the ability to non-invasively measure human motion intent. However, current control …

The central nervous system (CNS) is believed to utilize specific predefined modules, called
muscle synergies (MS), to accomplish a motor task. Yet questions persist about how the …

One theory for how humans control movement is that muscles are activated in weighted
groups or synergies. Studies have shown that electromyography (EMG) from a variety of …

In this paper we review the works related to muscle synergies that have been carried-out in
neuroscience and control engineering. In particular, we refer to the hypothesis that the …

Background Recently, muscle synergy analysis has become a standard methodology for
extracting coordination patterns from electromyographic (EMG) signals, and for the …

Muscle synergies have been proposed as a way for the central nervous system (CNS) to
simplify the generation of motor commands and they have been shown to explain a large …

Quantifying movement variability is a crucial aspect for clinical and laboratory investigations
in several contexts. However, very few studies have assessed, in detail, the intra-subject …

Mastering a rich repertoire of motor behaviors, as humans and other animals do, is a
surprising and still a poorly understood outcome of evolution, development, and learning …

Modularity in the central nervous system (CNS), ie, the brain capability to generate a wide
repertoire of movements by combining a small number of building blocks (“modules”), is …

Advances in neuronal recording techniques are leading to ever larger numbers of
simultaneously monitored neurons. This poses the important analytical challenge of how to …