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ArticleFrontiers in computational neuroscience2018

Feasibility Theory Reconciles and Informs Alternative Approaches to Neuromuscular Control.

Brian A Cohn, May Szedlák, Bernd Gärtner, Francisco J Valero-Cuevas

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Article in Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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15 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Neuromuscular control: from a biomechanist's perspective.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Brian A CohnDepartment of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
May SzedlákDepartment of Theoretical Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Bernd GärtnerDepartment of Theoretical Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Francisco J Valero-CuevasDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
ETH Zurich · CHUniversity of Southern California · US

Funding

Structure &function of the fingers tendinous apparatusR01AR052345 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI VALERO-CUEVAS, FRANCISCO J · 2005 to 2017
$3.7M
Control of finger movement and force for precision pinchR01AR050520 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI VALERO-CUEVAS, FRANCISCO J · 2004 to 2014
$2.9M
NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR050520NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR052345
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present Feasibility Theory, a conceptual and computational framework to unify today's theories of neuromuscular control. We begin by describing how the musculoskeletal anatomy of the limb, the need to control individual tendons, and the physics of a motor task uniquely specify the family of all valid muscle activations that accomplish it (its 'feasible activation space'). For our example of producing static force with a finger driven by seven muscles, computational geometry characterizes-in a complete way-the structure of feasible activation spaces as 3-dimensional polytopes embedded in 7-D. The feasible activation space for a given task is

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dimensionalityfeasibilityforcesmotor controlneuromechanicsoptimizationsynergiestendon-driven

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PMID30254579
PMCPMC6141757
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