A novel setup for investigations of reflexive and reactive motor responses in biceps

Abstract

Motor coordination represents an important issue in basic motor control research but also in application areas like clinical diagnosis, ergonomics, human-machine-interaction, sport sciences, etc. In this contribution, a novel setup is described which allows to investigate motor timing in the upper arm muscles. The setup will be used for investigating the motor coordination of a periodic activation (like physiological and pathological tremor) and a discrete motor response (like reactions and reflexes) as well as the influence of muscle fatigue.