Caterina Cosentino

This paper develops a method to assess neural control of shoulder muscles using HDsEMG and robotic arm data, revealing task-specific activation patterns and motor unit behavior.

This study examines how varying rectus femoris length affects motor unit discharge rates in vasti muscles during isometric contractions, finding increased discharge rates at low force but not high force.

The paper examines changes in neural drive during motor skill acquisition, finding reduced alpha band common synaptic oscillations correlate with performance improvements in vastus lateralis but not vastus medialis.

The paper examines how common synaptic inputs to spinal motor neurons change during grasping versus less functional hand tasks, finding reduced alpha band coherence and improved force steadiness during grasping.

The paper uses PCA and FA to show a single low-dimensional motor unit component explains most force oscillations during repetitive isometric tasks.