How the central nervous system (CNS) overcomes the complexity of multi-joint and multi-
muscle control and how it acquires or adapts motor skills are fundamental and open …

Synergistic models have been employed to investigate motor coordination separately in the
muscular and kinematic domains. However, the relationship between muscle synergies …

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 …

Theories of perception seek to explain how sensory data are processed to identify
previously experienced objects, but they usually do not consider the decisions and effort that …

Advanced sensors/electrodes and signal processing techniques provide powerful tools to
analyze surface electromyographic signals (sEMG) and their features, to decompose sEMG …

Do motor patterns of object lifting movements change as a result of ageing? Here we
propose a methodology for the characterization of these motor patterns across individuals of …

Many studies have demonstrated covariation between muscle activations during behavior,
suggesting that muscles are not controlled independently. According to one common …

Muscle activities underlying many motor behaviors can be generated by a small number of
basic activation patterns with specific features shared across movement conditions. Such …

Voluntary movement is hypothesized to rely on a limited number of muscle synergies, the
recruitment of which translates task goals into effective muscle activity. In this study, we …

Understanding how the CNS copes with the redundancy of the musculoskeletal system is a
central aim in motor neuroscience and has important implications in the clinical scenario. A …