Activation of plantar flexor muscles is constrained by multiple muscle synergies rather than joint torques.

Behavioral evidence has suggested that a small number of muscle synergies may be responsible for activating a variety of muscles. Nevertheless, such dimensionality reduction may also be explained using the perspective of alternative hypotheses, such as predictions based on linear combinations of joi...

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Main Authors: Takahito Suzuki, Ryuta Kinugasa, Senshi Fukashiro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5673179?pdf=render