The problem of controlling locomotion is an area in which neuroscience and robotics can
fruitfully interact. In this article, I will review research carried out on locomotor central pattern …

The central nervous system (CNS) may produce coordinated motor outputs via the
combination of motor modules representable as muscle synergies. Identification of muscle …

The experimental findings herein reported are aimed at gaining a perspective on the
complex neural events that follow lesions of the motor cortical areas. Cortical damage …

Muscle synergies provide a simple description of a complex motor control mechanism.
Synergies are extracted from muscle activation patterns using factorisation methods. Despite …

Several recent studies have used matrix factorization algorithms to assess the hypothesis
that behaviors might be produced through the combination of a small number of muscle …

A long standing goal in motor control is to determine the fundamental output controlled by
the CNS: does the CNS control the activation of individual motor units, individual muscles …

Previous studies in neurologically intact subjects have shown that motor coordination can be
described by task-dependent combinations of a few muscle synergies, defined here as a …

Animal movement is controlled by motor neurons (MNs), which project out of the central
nervous system to activate muscles. MN activity is coordinated by complex premotor …

Previous studies have suggested that the motor system may simplify control by combining a
small number of muscle synergies represented as activation profiles across a set of muscles …

In recent years different lines of evidence have led to the idea that motor actions and
movements in both vertebrates and invertebrates are composed of elementary building …