The control and perception of antagonist muscle action

ML Latash - Experimental Brain Research, 2023 - Springer
The review covers a range of topics related to the role of the antagonist muscles in agonist–
antagonist pairs within the theory of the neural control of movements with spatial referent …

Synergic control of movement: from single muscles to the whole body

ML Latash - Progress in motor control, 2024 - Elsevier
Within his multilevel scheme for the construction of movement, Nikolai Bernstein defined
synergies as neural organizations of elements with two functions:(1) to group elemental …

Two classes of action-stabilizing synergies reflecting spinal and supraspinal circuitry

SD De, JM Ricotta, A Benamati… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
We explored force-stabilizing synergies during accurate four-finger constant force
production tasks in spaces of finger modes (commands to fingers computed to account for …

Force matching: motor effects that are not reported by the actor

M Pawłowski, JM Ricotta, SD De, ML Latash - Experimental Brain …, 2024 - Springer
We explored unintentional drifts of finger forces during force production and matching task.
Based on earlier studies, we predicted that force matching with the other hand would reduce …

Force drifts and matching errors in the lower extremities: implications for the control and perception of foot force

I Rannama, A Zusa, ML Latash - Experimental Brain Research, 2025 - Springer
Accurate control of force on the environment is mechanically necessary for many tasks
involving the lower extremities. We investigated drifts in the horizontal (shear) active force …

Recovery of pinch force sense after short-term fatigue

L Li, Y Li, C Zhang, D Zhang - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The aim of this study was to identify the exact origin of force sense and identify whether it
arises centrally or peripherally. The present study was designed to analyze the effects of …

Unintentional drifts in performance during one-hand and two-hand finger force production

V Abolins, J Ormanis, ML Latash - Experimental Brain Research, 2023 - Springer
We explored the phenomena of force drifts and unintentional finger force production
(enslaving), and their dependence on visual feedback. Predictions have been drawn based …

Optimality, stability, and agility of human movement: New optimality criterion and trade-offs

ML Latash - Motor control, 2022 - journals.humankinetics.com
This review of movement stability, optimality, and agility is based on the theory of motor
control with changes in spatial referent coordinates for the effectors, the principle of …

Decay of Short-Term Motor Memory Regarding Force Reproduction

K Hiraoka, M Ishimoto, M Kishigami… - Motor …, 2022 - journals.humankinetics.com
This study investigated the process that contributes to the decay of short-term motor memory
regarding force reproduction. Participants performed tonic flexion of the right index finger …

Unintentional force drifts in the lower extremities

I Rannama, A Zusa, ML Latash - Experimental Brain Research, 2023 - Springer
We explored the phenomenon of unintentional force drift seen in the absence of visual
feedback during knee extension contractions in isometric conditions. Based on the …