Analysis of hand synergies in healthy subjects during bimanual manipulation of various objects

• Published in: Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation Vol. 11; no. 1; p. 113
• Main Authors: Jarrassé, Nathanaël, Ribeiro, Adriano, Sahbani, Anis, Bachta, Wael, Roby-Brami, Agnes
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 30.07.2014; BioMed Central
• Subjects: Adult; Analysis; Biomechanical Phenomena; Experiments; Female; Fingers & toes; Hand - physiology; Hand Strength - physiology; Health aspects; Humans; Implants, Artificial; Life Sciences; Male; Neurons and Cognition; Posture; Principal Component Analysis; Principal components analysis; Prosthesis; Psychomotor Performance - physiology; Studies; Young Adult; Postural synergies; Kinematics; Fingers Human

Hand synergies have been extensively studied over the last few decades. Objectives of such research are numerous. In neuroscience, the aim is to improve the understanding of motor control and its ability to reduce the control dimensionality. In applied research fields like robotics the aim is to bui...