Haskins Publications

Number	1474
Year	2007
Drawer	26
Entry Date	05/19/2008
Authors	Turvey, M.T.
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Publication	Human Movement Science, V. 26, pp. 657-697.
url	http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL1474.pdf
Abstract	Meeting the challenge of assembling coherent organizations of very many muscles characterizes a functional level of biological movement systems referred to as the level of muscular-articular links or synergies. The present article examines the issues confronting the forming, regulating, and ordering of synergies and the hypothesized principles, both classical and contemporary, which resolve them. A primary goal of the article is to highlight the abstractness of the concepts and tools required to understand the level’s action-perception competence. Coverage is given to symmetry groups, task space, order parameters, metastability, biotensegrity, allometric scaling, and impredicative definitions.
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