Neural bases of hand synergies

M Santello, G Baud-Bovy, H Jörntell - Frontiers in computational …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
… constraining coupled actions at multiple joints within a digit also characterizes coupled
actions across digits. Specifically, interconnections between tendons of hand muscles and long …

Effects of hand muscle function and dominance on intra-muscle synergies

S Madarshahian, ML Latash - Human Movement Science, 2022 - Elsevier
The goal of the study was to explore the effects of hand dominance and muscle function (prime
mover vs. supporting muscle) on recently discovered intra-muscle synergies as potential …

Muscular and postural synergies of the human hand

EJ Weiss, M Flanders - Journal of neurophysiology, 2004 - journals.physiology.org
… In our laboratory, patterns of coupling and covariation have been studied by using an
instrumented glove to record ≤17 joint angles (including 2 or 3 angles for each finger and 4 for the …

A relation spectrum inheriting Taylor series: Muscle synergy and coupling for hand

G Liu, J Wang - Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic …, 2022 - Springer
… This paper shows the muscle coupling of the human hand. Despite differentiated coupling
… 8, for future research we can refer to muscle synergy results and imitate the muscle synergy

Effects of hand configuration on muscle force coordination, co-contraction and concomitant intermuscular coupling during maximal isometric flexion of the fingers

C Charissou, D Amarantini, R Baurès, E Berton… - European journal of …, 2017 - Springer
… is related to modulation of muscle force coordination during hand contractions. Our results
… intermuscular coupling as a mechanism contributing to the control of muscle force synergies

Muscular synergies in the human hand

EJ Hüsler - 2001 - research-collection.ethz.ch
… the human hand itself … for synergistic motor activity. The hypothesis was that the problem of
excess degrees of freedom in the hand is resolved by the coupling of agents muscles, muscle

Hand synergies: Integration of robotics and neuroscience for understanding the control of biological and artificial hands

M Santello, M Bianchi, M Gabiccini, E Ricciardi… - Physics of life …, 2016 - Elsevier
… and static hand postural synergies may be related to, or mediated by, hand muscle synergies.
… to deal with the synergistic compliant coupling of a subset of DOFs. For example, the soft-…

Differences between flexion and extension synergy-driven coupling at the elbow, wrist, and fingers of individuals with chronic hemiparetic stroke

LM McPherson, JPA Dewald - Clinical Neurophysiology, 2019 - Elsevier
… flexor muscles were included and not the intrinsic hand muscles, because the extrinsic
muscles have clear roles as flexors and extensors, whereas the intrinsic hand muscles have …

Multi-finger synergies and the muscular apparatus of the hand

C Cuadra, A Bartsch, P Tiemann… - Experimental Brain …, 2018 - Springer
We explored whether the synergic control of the hand during multi-finger force production
tasks depends on the hand muscles involved. Healthy subjects performed accurate force …

EMG activation patterns during force production in precision grip: II. Muscular synergies in the spatial and temporal domain

MA Maier, MC Hepp-Reymond - Experimental brain research, 1995 - Springer
muscle synergies in the spatiotemporal domain (synchronization). A muscle pair was defined
to be synergistically coupled … within and between various hand muscles appeared to be the …