The neural origin of muscle synergies

Muscle synergies are neural coordinative structures that function to alleviate the computational burden associated with the control of movement and posture. In this commentary, we address two critical questions: the explicit encoding of muscle synergies in the nervous system, and how muscle synergies simplify movement production. We argue that shared and task-specific muscle synergies are neurophysiological entities whose combination, orchestrated by the motor cortical areas and the afferent systems, facilitates motor control and motor learning.

• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

• Publication date

  2013-04-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3389/fncom.2013.00051PMID 23641212PMCID 3638124
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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