human factors and ergonomics

NEUROSCIENCE FOR AVIATION, AEROSPACE, DEFENCE AND HEALTH

NEUROSCIENCE FOR AVIATION, AEROSPACE, DEFENCE AND HEALTH

Measuring operators’ cognitive and emotional states, training progresses, and teamwork is really innovative, especially in operative and real contexts. The Neuroscience Lab develops methodologies able to measure humans' mental states like mental workload, stress, attention, fatigue in real time.

Muscular synchronization and hand-arm fatigue

Muscular fatigue occurs when motor units are no longer able to maintain an established force level. From an electromyographic point of view, fatigue is associated with a decrement of median frequency of contracting fibers. When the muscle is exposed to mechanical vibration, it undergoes a superimposition of voluntary contraction and stretch reflex, latter being synchronized to the mechanical frequency. The present paper is aimed to study the changes of muscular synchronization in long-lasting muscular tasks using a specific index change (?SL).

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