ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2022
Humans trade off whole-body energy cost to avoid overburdening muscles while walking.
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- The effect of prolonged walking on leg muscle activity patterns and vulnerability to perturbations.Journal of electromyography and kinesiology : official journal of the International Society of Electrophysiological Kinesiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Metabolic cost minimization is thought to underscore the neural control of locomotion. Yet, avoiding high muscle activation, a cause of fatigue, often outperforms energy minimization in computational predictions of human gait. Discerning the relative importance of these criteria in human walking has proved elusive, in part, because they have not been empirically decoupled. Here, we explicitly decouple whole-body metabolic cost and 'fatigue-like' muscle activation costs (estimated from electromyography) by pitting them against one another using two distinct gait tasks. When experiencing these competing costs, participants (
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