Workshop on Novel Approaches of Systems Neuroscience to Sports and Rehabilitation

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Muscle synergy analysis for motor control
Yasuharu Koike
Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology

When we learn the new skill, it is hard to control our body to adaptive new environment. There are many muscles in our body, and usually each muscle activities are unconscious. Synergy is a concept for motor control by many muscles activate same timing for tasks, and is activation pattern of muscles. Recently, this concept is used for analysis of motor control and motor learning. In this study, the synergies were calculated using data which was recorded during motion task. The results show that the similar synergies were acquired for same task of different subjects. These synergies were corresponding to the motion characteristics and it would be useful for analyzing the motion data.