Assessed the effects of particular treatment combinations of relaxation training, temperature, and EMG biofeedback on state-trait anxiety, symptom report, and self-concept. The four groups received one of the following sequences: (a) relaxation training, temperature, and EMG biofeedback; (b) temperature, EMG biofeedback, and relaxation; (c) temperature followed by EMG biofeedback; (d) EMG biofe...

This paper reports on our recent research on surface electromyographic (EMG) speech synthesis: a direct conversion of the EMG signals of the articulatory muscle movements to the acoustic speech signal. In this work we introduce a unit selection approach which compares segments of the input EMG signal to a database of simultaneously recorded EMG/audio unit pairs and selects the best matching aud...

We present our recent results on speech recognition by surface electromyography (EMG), which captures the electric potentials that are generated by the human articulatory muscles. This technique can be used to enable Silent Speech Interfaces, since EMG signals are generated even when people only articulate speech without producing any sound. Preliminary experiments have shown that the EMG signa...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of anteroposterior postural change on electromyography (EMG) activity in the lateral pterygoid muscle. Subjects consisted of 7 patients attending this hospital for close examination. The inferior heads of the lateral pterygoid and masseter muscles were chosen as evaluation sites. For the EMG recordings, the test movement was opening and...

Torque and electromyographic (EMG) responses to sinusoidal rotations of the foot were measured. The frequency range of the movements was 0.5 Hz to 15 Hz at amplitudes ranging between 1 and 10 degrees. At frequencies above 7 Hz, the EMG activity did not follow individual foot rotation cycles. The EMG activity was inhibited whenever the peak torque was large with respect to the first cycle peak ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of fatty tissue layer on EMG signal parameters as a function of force level and type of muscle in young women. On the basis of body mass index (BMI) and the amount of fatty tissue (FT) 30 young women were divided into two equal groups: obese (O) and reference group (R). The EMG signal was measured on 5 levels of load from 2 muscles: palmari...

Previous reports have indicated that biting behavior is enhanced in rats that are subject to acute stress. Several methods have been proposed for studying this phenomenon, one of which is the electromyography (EMG) of the jaw muscles. In this study, we compared total EMG activity with the EMG activity related to biting behavior, as determined by video monitoring, before and after restraint stre...

This study aimed to determine whether training aids (side reins and a Pessoa) increased the use of the longissimus dorsi when horses are being lunged. Horses were lunged on a circle under four different conditions on the left and right reins in walk and trot, and electromyographic (EMG) and speed measurements were taken using surface EMG at T16 and GPS, respectively. The EMG intensity was subst...

BACKGROUND Selecting an appropriate number of surface electromyography (EMG) channels with desired classification performance and determining the optimal placement of EMG electrodes would be necessary and important in practical myoelectric control. In previous studies, several methods such as sequential forward selection (SFS) and Fisher-Markov selector (FMS) have been used to select the approp...

OBJECTIVE People can learn to control mu (8-12 Hz) or beta (18-25 Hz) rhythm amplitude in the electroencephalogram (EEG) recorded over sensorimotor cortex and use it to move a cursor to a target on a video screen. The recorded signal may also contain electromyogram (EMG) and other non-EEG artifacts. This study examines the presence and characteristics of EMG contamination during new users' init...