The hand endows us with unparalleled precision and versatility in our interactions with
objects, from mundane activities such as gras** to extraordinary ones such as virtuoso …

The sensorimotor system is a product of evolution, development, learning and adaptation—
which work on different time scales to improve behavioral performance. Consequently, many …

A central problem in motor control is understanding how the many biomechanical degrees of
freedom are coordinated to achieve a common goal. An especially puzzling aspect of …

Demonstrations that grip strength has predictive power in relation to a range of health
conditions—even when these are assessed decades later—has motivated claims that hand …

Human Hand Function is a multidisciplinary book that reviews the sensory and motor
aspects of normal hand function from both neurophysiological and behavioral perspectives …

Driven by recent empirical studies, we offer a new understanding of the degrees of freedom
problem, and propose a refined concept of synergy as a neural organization that ensures a …

Synergy discusses a general problem in biology: The lack of an adequate language for
formulating biologically specific problems. Written for an inquisitive reader who is not …

We describe several influential hypotheses in the field of motor control including the
equilibrium-point (referent configuration) hypothesis, the uncontrolled manifold hypothesis …

The hand is one of the most fascinating and sophisticated biological motor systems. The
complex biomechanical and neural architecture of the hand poses challenging questions for …

The human hand has so many degrees of freedom that it may seem impossible to control. A
potential solution to this problem is “synergy control” which combines dimensionality …