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Frontiers Media, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, (7)

DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2013.00051

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The neural origin of muscle synergies

Journal article published in 2013 by Emilio Bizzi, Vincent C. K. Cheung ORCID
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Abstract

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.