When animals walk overground, mechanical stimuli activate various receptors located in
muscles, joints and skin. Afferents from these mechanoreceptors project to neuronal …

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1. We have investigated the possibility that voluntary muscle lengthening contractions can
be performed by selective recruitment of fast‐twitch motor units, accompanied by …

Social dilemmas occur when the pursuit of self-interest by individuals in a group leads to
less than optimal collective outcomes for everyone in the group. A critical assumption in the …

Voluntary movement requires communication from cortex to the spinal cord, where a
dedicated pool of motor units (MUs) activates each muscle. The canonical description of MU …

Spinal motor systems receive a convergent input from descending tracts and peripheral
afferents. As a rule, there is multiform descending convergence from different supraspinal …

In many arm or leg movements the hand or foot has to exert an external force on the
environment. Based on an inverse dynamical analysis of cycling, it is shown that the …

The human temporalis and masseter muscles are not activated homogeneously during static
bite force tasks. In this study, we studied the possible existence of regional differences in …

1. In this study we have recorded the activity of motor units of the important muscles acting
across the elbow joint during combinations of voluntary isometric torques in …

This paper describes a computational approach to modeling the complex mechanical
properties of muscles and tendons under physiological conditions of recruitment and …