Behaviour of human motor units in different muscles during linearly varying contractions

1. The electrical activity of up to eight concurrently active motor units has been recorded from the human deltoid and first dorsal interosseous (f.d.i.) muscles. The detected myoelectric signals have been decomposed into their constituent motor‐unit action potential trains using a recently developed technique.

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