Muscle activation and electromyography studies

Unimanual fatigue increases muscle excitation and local metabolic activity in the resting contralateral forearm

This study shows that unimanual fatigue increases contralateral muscle excitation and local metabolic activity in the resting forearm during vascular occlusion.

Dissecting the metabolic costs of up- and down-hill walking

The paper evaluates a musculoskeletal model to estimate muscle force- and work-related costs during uphill and downhill walking, finding they correlate with joint moments and net joint work, respectively.

Dopaminergic Medication Improves Force Control and Modifies Motor Unit Activity During the Steadiest and Least Steady Periods in Parkinsons Disease

This study shows dopaminergic medication improves force steadiness and reduces motor unit variability in Parkinson's disease during both steady and least steady contraction periods.

Motor unit mechanisms of speed control in mouse locomotion

This study investigates how motor unit firing patterns control locomotor speed in mice by analyzing single motor unit activity in specific muscles during walking.

Beyond snapshots: A dynamic framework for continuous motor unit tracking to enhance neurophysiological assessments

This paper introduces a dynamic computational framework for continuous motor unit tracking, demonstrating improved accuracy in identifying motor units and revealing hormonal influences on neuromuscular plasticity.

Motor unit discharge properties are modestly influenced by menstrual cycle-related fluctuations in sex hormone concentrations

This study examines how menstrual cycle-related sex hormone fluctuations affect motor unit discharge properties, finding small but detectable effects on discharge rates and patterns.

Estimates of persistent inward currents in human spinal motor neurons: non-linear and sex-dependent trajectories from young to very old age

The paper estimates persistent inward currents in human spinal motor neurons across age groups and sexes, finding nonlinear age-related changes and sex differences in PICs but not in neuromodulatory indices.

Emulating the influence of exoskeleton stiffness on primary afferent feedback in rat isolated muscle-tendon unit

The paper investigates how exoskeleton stiffness affects muscle spindle firing in rats by applying controlled stretches with engineered springs and measuring biomechanical responses.

Feasibility and repeatability of MEG-compatible patellar-tendon stimulator for eliciting knee-joint proprioceptive cortical responses

The paper introduces a MEG-compatible stimulator for knee-joint proprioception and shows it reliably elicits cortical responses with good repeatability.

A Physiologically Detailed Biomechanical Model of the Mouse Distal Forelimb for Simulation of Fine Motor Control

This paper develops a biomechanical model of the mouse distal forelimb to simulate fine motor control and validate it against experimental data.

Acute caffeine ingestion differentially alters motor unit behaviour during submaximal and fatiguing contractions

This study examines how acute caffeine affects motor unit behavior during submaximal and fatiguing contractions, finding changes in discharge rate and variability without enhancing maximal force or fatigue resistance.

Cycling Cadence Selections at Different Saddle Heights Minimize Muscle Activation Rather Than Energy Cost

This study shows that cyclists select cadences to minimize muscle activation rather than energy cost, with saddle height affecting cadence choices.

LENS: a transferable neuromuscular signature of musculoskeletal pain intensity

LENS decodes musculoskeletal pain intensity from sEMG, showing strong generalization to chronic pain cohorts and revealing a conserved pain signature masked by motor variability.

Stretch versus shortening contractions subsequently decrease versus increase neural drive to the human tibialis anterior

The paper investigates how neural drive to the tibialis anterior changes after stretch or shortening contractions, finding differences in EMG amplitude and discharge rates at different contraction intensities.

The influence of muscle mass on the coordination required for efficient movement

This study investigates how muscle coordination changes with muscle size during cycling by simulating metabolic cost minimization across scaled muscle models.

Neural coupling between spinal motor neurons of the first dorsal interosseous muscle during individual index finger flexion and pinch tasks

The paper compares neural coupling in motor units during index finger flexion and precision pinch tasks, finding stronger nonlinear coupling during pinch.

Task-Dependent Motor Unit Recruitment and Rate Coding Reveal Redistribution of Neural Drive in the Human Hand

The paper examines how motor unit recruitment and firing rates change with different hand tasks, showing task-dependent variations in neural drive distribution.

Probabilistic inference of Homonymous and Heteronymous Recurrent Inhibition in Human Muscles from Large-Scale Motor Neuron Recordings

The paper uses motor neuron recordings and simulation-based inference to estimate homonymous and heteronymous recurrent inhibition in human muscles during contractions.

Reliability of Spatiotemporal Neuromuscular Activity Patterns in Magnetomyography Across Force Levels

This study evaluates the reliability of spatiotemporal neuromuscular activity patterns in OPM-MMG across force levels, finding high within-subject stability in most subjects.

Recurrent inhibition crosses the spinal cord midline in humans

The paper demonstrates contralateral inhibition in human spinal circuits through experiments and modeling, revealing a commissural pathway involving V3-like interneurons.

DualMyo: Multi-Channel Dual-Stream Transformer Architecture for EMG-to-Digit Classification

This paper introduces DualMyo, a Transformer-based model for EMG-to-digit classification, achieving 91% accuracy with lightweight fine-tuning for cross-session adaptation.

Arm locomotor behaviour affects motor unit discharge characteristics in the stationary leg

The paper examines how arm locomotor activity affects motor unit discharge characteristics in the stationary leg during submaximal contractions.

Cross-Recording Handwritten Digit Decoding from sEMG Using a Compact CNN-Transformer and Few-Shot Adaptation

This paper develops a compact CNN-Transformer model for decoding handwritten digits from sEMG signals, showing improved performance with few-shot adaptation.

Sex Differences in Motor Unit Properties and Force Steadiness: Insights from Strength-Matched Elbow Flexion

This study matched strength between sexes and found no sex differences in force steadiness, but females had higher motor unit recruitment thresholds and discharge rates.

Maximising average mechanical power output during stretch-shortening cycles of rat medial gastrocnemius muscle

This study uses Hill-type muscle modeling to predict optimal parameters for maximizing average mechanical power output during stretch-shortening cycles in rat medial gastrocnemius muscle.

Height-induced postural threat selectively facilitates spinal reflex in the tibialis anterior muscle during quiet standing

This study shows that height-induced postural threat increases spinal reflex excitability specifically in the tibialis anterior muscle during quiet standing.

Synergy-based Feedforward with Minimal Feedback Control Predicts Walking Over Multiple Cycles

This study develops a synergy-based feedforward plus feedback control model for post-stroke walking, finding that 100% feedforward control best reproduces experimental data.

Simultaneous Proportional Control of Two Degrees-of-Freedom Human Machine Interface Using Highly Sparse Sonomyography

This paper develops a sonomyography-based system for intuitive, simultaneous control of hand and wrist movements using sparse ultrasound data and regression techniques.

EMG-BIDS: an extension to the Brain Imaging Data Structure for electromyography

EMG-BIDS standardizes EMG data organization, enabling FAIR data sharing and supporting machine learning applications.

Recurrent inhibition, not presynaptic inhibition, contributes to the velocity-dependent control of motoneuron output during eccentric contractions

The paper investigates how angular velocity affects spinal inhibitory mechanisms during eccentric contractions, finding that recurrent inhibition, not presynaptic inhibition, shows velocity-dependent changes.