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Characterization of Human Motor Units From Surface EMG Decomposition by Farina, Dario, Holobar, Ales

“…Motor units are the smallest functional units of our movements. The study of their activation provides a window into the mechanisms of neural control of…”
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Common synaptic input to motor neurons, motor unit synchronization, and force control by Farina, Dario, Negro, Francesco

“…In considering the role of common synaptic input to motor neurons in force control, we hypothesize that the effective neural drive to muscle replicates the…”
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Simultaneous and Proportional Estimation of Hand Kinematics From EMG During Mirrored Movements at Multiple Degrees-of-Freedom by Muceli, Silvia, Farina, Dario

“…This paper proposes and tests on able-bodied subjects a control strategy that can be practically applied in unilateral transradial amputees for simultaneous…”
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The extraction of neural strategies from the surface EMG: an update by Farina, Dario, Merletti, Roberto, Enoka, Roger M

“…A surface EMG signal represents the linear transformation of motor neuron discharge times by the compound action potentials of the innervated muscle fibers and…”
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The effective neural drive to muscles is the common synaptic input to motor neurons by Farina, Dario, Negro, Francesco, Dideriksen, Jakob Lund

“…Key points Despite the non‐linear property of individual motor neurons, the pool of motor neurons linearizes the relation between their common synaptic input…”
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Associations between motor unit action potential parameters and surface EMG features by Del Vecchio, Alessandro, Negro, Francesco, Felici, Francesco, Farina, Dario

“…The surface interference EMG signal provides some information on the neural drive to muscles. However, the association between neural drive to muscle and…”
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You are as fast as your motor neurons: speed of recruitment and maximal discharge of motor neurons determine the maximal rate of force development in humans by Del Vecchio, Alessandro, Negro, Francesco, Holobar, Ales, Casolo, Andrea, Folland, Jonathan P., Felici, Francesco, Farina, Dario

“…Key points We propose and validate a method for accurately identifying the activity of populations of motor neurons during contractions at maximal rate of…”
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The increase in muscle force after 4 weeks of strength training is mediated by adaptations in motor unit recruitment and rate coding by Del Vecchio, Alessandro, Casolo, Andrea, Negro, Francesco, Scorcelletti, Matteo, Bazzucchi, Ilenia, Enoka, Roger, Felici, Francesco, Farina, Dario

“…Key points Previous studies have indicated that several weeks of strength training is sufficient to elicit significant adaptations in the neural drive sent to…”
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Spatial Correlation of High Density EMG Signals Provides Features Robust to Electrode Number and Shift in Pattern Recognition for Myocontrol by Stango, Antonietta, Negro, Francesco, Farina, Dario

“…Research on pattern recognition for myoelectric control has usually focused on a small number of electromyography (EMG) channels because of better clinical…”
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Adaptive Real-Time Identification of Motor Unit Discharges From Non-Stationary High-Density Surface Electromyographic Signals by Chen, Chen, Ma, Shihan, Sheng, Xinjun, Farina, Dario, Zhu, Xiangyang

“…Objective: Estimation of the discharge pattern of motor units by electromyography (EMG) decomposition has been applied for neurophysiologic investigations,…”
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Amplitude cancellation influences the association between frequency components in the neural drive to muscle and the rectified EMG signal by Dideriksen, Jakob Lund, Farina, Dario

“…The rectified surface EMG signal is commonly used as an estimator of the neural drive to muscles and therefore to infer sources of synaptic input to motor…”
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Principles of human movement augmentation and the challenges in making it a reality by Eden, Jonathan, Bräcklein, Mario, Ibáñez, Jaime, Barsakcioglu, Deren Yusuf, Di Pino, Giovanni, Farina, Dario, Burdet, Etienne, Mehring, Carsten

“…Augmenting the body with artificial limbs controlled concurrently to one’s natural limbs has long appeared in science fiction, but recent technological and…”
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Neuro-Musculoskeletal Mapping for Man-Machine Interfacing by Kapelner, Tamas, Sartori, Massimo, Negro, Francesco, Farina, Dario

“…We propose a myoelectric control method based on neural data regression and musculoskeletal modeling. This paradigm uses the timings of motor neuron discharges…”
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Intuitive, Online, Simultaneous, and Proportional Myoelectric Control Over Two Degrees-of-Freedom in Upper Limb Amputees by Jiang, Ning, Rehbaum, Hubertus, Vujaklija, Ivan, Graimann, Bernhard, Farina, Dario

“…We propose an approach for online simultaneous and proportional myoelectric control of two degrees-of-freedom (DoF) of the wrist, using surface…”
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User adaptation in Myoelectric Man-Machine Interfaces by Hahne, Janne M., Markovic, Marko, Farina, Dario

“…State of the art clinical hand prostheses are controlled in a simple and limited way that allows the activation of one function at a time. More advanced…”
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The Extraction of Neural Information from the Surface EMG for the Control of Upper-Limb Prostheses: Emerging Avenues and Challenges by Farina, Dario, Jiang, Ning, Rehbaum, Hubertus, Holobar, Ales, Graimann, Bernhard, Dietl, Hans, Aszmann, Oskar C.

“…Despite not recording directly from neural cells, the surface electromyogram (EMG) signal contains information on the neural drive to muscles, i.e, the spike…”
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Linear transmission of cortical oscillations to the neural drive to muscles is mediated by common projections to populations of motoneurons in humans by Negro, Francesco, Farina, Dario

“…Non‐technical summary Since the human central nervous system controls muscle contraction through inputs to spinal motoneurons, oscillations recorded on the…”
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Extracting Signals Robust to Electrode Number and Shift for Online Simultaneous and Proportional Myoelectric Control by Factorization Algorithms by Muceli, Silvia, Jiang, Ning, Farina, Dario

“…Previous research proposed the extraction of myoelectric control signals by linear factorization of multi-channel electromyogram (EMG) recordings from forearm…”
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Modeling and simulating the neuromuscular mechanisms regulating ankle and knee joint stiffness during human locomotion by Sartori, Massimo, Maculan, Marco, Pizzolato, Claudio, Reggiani, Monica, Farina, Dario

“…This work presents an electrophysiologically and dynamically consistent musculoskeletal model to predict stiffness in the human ankle and knee joints as…”
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Fluctuations in isometric muscle force can be described by one linear projection of low-frequency components of motor unit discharge rates by Negro, Francesco, Holobar, Aleš, Farina, Dario

“…The aim of the study was to investigate the relation between linear transformations of motor unit discharge rates and muscle force. Intramuscular (wire…”
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