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12. Two classes of action-stabilizing synergies reflecting spinal and supraspinal circuitry.

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De, Sayan Deep, Ricotta, Joseph M., Benamati, Anna, and Latash, Mark L.

Subjects
*MOTOR unit, *MOLECULAR force constants, *NEURAL circuitry, *PRINCIPAL components analysis
Abstract

We explored force-stabilizing synergies during accurate four-finger constant force production tasks in spaces of finger modes (commands to fingers computed to account for the finger interdependence) and of motor unit (MU) firing frequencies. The main specific hypothesis was that the multifinger synergies would disappear during unintentional force drifts without visual feedback on the force magnitude, whereas MU-based synergies would be robust to such drifts. Healthy participants performed four-finger accurate cyclical force production trials followed by trials of constant force production. Individual MUs were identified in the flexor digitorum superficialis (FDS) and extensor digitorum communis (EDC). Principal component analysis was applied to motor unit frequencies to identify robust MU groups (MU-modes) with parallel scaling of the firing frequencies in FDS, in EDC, and the combined MUs of FDS þ EDC. The framework of the uncontrolled manifold hypothesis was used to quantify force-stabilizing synergies when visual feedback on the force magnitude was available and 15 s after turning the visual feedback off. Removing visual feedback led to a force drift toward lower magnitudes, accompanied by the disappearance of multifinger synergies. In contrast, MU-mode synergies were minimally affected by removing visual feedback off and continued to be robust for the FDS and for the EDC, while being absent for the (FDS þ EDC) analysis. We interpret the findings within the theory of hierarchical control of action with spatial referent coordinates. The qualitatively different behavior of the multifinger and MU-mode-based synergies likely reflects the difference in the involved neural circuitry, supraspinal for the former and spinal for the latter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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