Spinal Mechanisms May Provide a Combination of Intermittent and Continuous Control of Human Posture: Predictions from a Biologically Based Neuromusculoskeletal Model

Does the Motor System Need Intermittent Control?

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Cortical contributions to control of posture during unrestricted and restricted stance

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The effective neural drive to muscles is the common synaptic input to motor neurons

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Quantification of Dexterity as the Dynamical Regulation of Instabilities: Comparisons Across Gender, Age, and Disease

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Larger plantar flexion torque variability implies less stable balance in the young: An association affected by knee position

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Tibialis anterior muscle fascicle dynamics adequately represent postural sway during standing balance

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Absence of lateral gastrocnemius activity and differential motor unit behavior in soleus and medial gastrocnemius during standing balance

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Influences of premotoneuronal command statistics on the scaling of motor output variability during isometric plantar flexion

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Spinal-Like Regulator Facilitates Control of a Two-Degree-of-Freedom Wrist

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Modeling human postural sway using an intermittent control and hemodynamic perturbations

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Interfacing sensory input with motor output: does the control architecture converge to a serial process along a single channel?

(2013) Cornelis van de Kamp et al.   Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Refractoriness in Sustained Visuo-Manual Control: Is the Refractory Duration Intrinsic or Does It Depend on External System Properties?

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Models of passive and active dendrite motoneuron pools and their differences in muscle force control

(2012) Leonardo Abdala Elias et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE

Motor unit recruitment strategies and muscle properties determine the influence of synaptic noise on force steadiness

(2012) Jakob L. Dideriksen et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Intermittent control with ankle, hip, and mixed strategies during quiet standing: A theoretical proposal based on a double inverted pendulum model

(2012) Yasuyuki Suzuki et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Individual and collective properties of computationally efficient motoneuron models of types S and F with active dendrites

(2012) Leonardo Abdala Elias et al.   NEUROCOMPUTING

The Proprioceptive Senses: Their Roles in Signaling Body Shape, Body Position and Movement, and Muscle Force

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EMG-Driven Forward-Dynamic Estimation of Muscle Force and Joint Moment about Multiple Degrees of Freedom in the Human Lower Extremity

(2012) Massimo Sartori et al.   PLoS One

A Large-Scale Model of the Functioning Brain

(2012) C. Eliasmith et al.   SCIENCE

Intermittent control: a computational theory of human control

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Clonus is explained from increased reflex gain and enlarged tissue viscoelasticity

(2011) Erwin de Vlugt et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Recruitment of motor units in the medial gastrocnemius muscle during human quiet standing: is recruitment intermittent? What triggers recruitment?

(2011) Taian M. M. Vieira et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Muscle dependency of corticomuscular coherence in upper and lower limb muscles and training-related alterations in ballet dancers and weightlifters

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Relating reflex gain modulation in posture control to underlying neural network properties using a neuromusculoskeletal model

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Human control of an inverted pendulum: Is continuous control necessary? Is intermittent control effective? Is intermittent control physiological?

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A Model of the Lower Limb for Analysis of Human Movement

(2009) Edith M. Arnold et al.   ANNALS OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

The proprioceptive and agonist roles of gastrocnemius, soleus and tibialis anterior muscles in maintaining human upright posture

(2009) Irene Di Giulio et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON

The inverted pendulum model of bipedal standing cannot be stabilized through direct feedback of force and contractile element length and velocity at realistic series elastic element stiffness

(2008) A. J. “Knoek” van Soest et al.   BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS

Bounded stability of the quiet standing posture: An intermittent control model

(2008) Alessandra Bottaro et al.   HUMAN MOVEMENT SCIENCE

Simulation system of spinal cord motor nuclei and associated nerves and muscles, in a Web-based architecture

(2008) Rogerio R. L. Cisi et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE

Multiple Modes of Amplification of Synaptic Inhibition to Motoneurons by Persistent Inward Currents

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