Journal
FRONTIERS IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS RESEARCH FOUNDATION
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2013.00051
Keywords
motor primitive; spinal interneuron; motor module; non-negative matrix factorization; motor cortex
Funding
- NIH [NS44393, RC1-NS068103-01]
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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.
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