Limb movement: getting a handle on grasp.
The mechanical complexity of the hand is indisputable, but there is increasing evidence that its control is simplified in many tasks around synergic groups of muscles that effectively decrease the number of controlled degrees of freedom.
Miller
Lee E
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Department of Physiology, Northwestern University Medical School, and Northwestern University Institute for Neuroscience, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA. lm@northwestern.edu
D000818:Animals; D001001:Anura; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D004576:Electromyography; D005121:Extremities / Q000502:physiology*; D006225:Hand / Q000294:innervation* / Q000502:physiology*; D000882:Haplorhini; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology*; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology