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Reviews

  • Ting, L.H.* (2007) Dimensional reduction in sensorimotor systems: a framework for understanding muscle coordination of posture. In Computational Neuroscience: Theoretical Insights into Brain Function, Cisek, P., Drew, T. & Kalaska, J.F. (eds), Progress In Brain Research, 165:301-325, Amsterdam: Elsevier. PDF
  • Ting, L.H.*, McKay, J.L. (2008) Neuromechanics of muscle synergies for posture and movement. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 17(6):622-628. PDF
  • Ting, L.H.*, van Antwerp, K.V., Scrivens, J.E., McKay, J.L., Welch, T.D., Bingham, J.T., Deweerth, S.P. (2009) Neuromechanical tuning of nonlinear postural control dynamics. Chaos, 19(2):026111. PDF
  • Chiel, H.J., Ting, L.H., Ekeberg, O., Hartmann, M.J.Z. (2009) The Brain in Its Body: Motor Control and Sensing in a Biomechanical Context. Journal of Neuroscience, 29(41):12807-12814. PDF
  • Safavynia, S.A., Torres-Oviedo, G., Ting L.H.* (2011) Muscle synergies: implications for clinical evaluation and rehabilitation of movement. Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation, 17(1), 16-24. PDF
  • Ting, L.H.*, Chvatal, S.A., Safavynia, S.A., McKay, J.L. (in press) Neuromechanical considerations for predicting muscle activation patterns for movement. International Journal of Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering.

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Chapter

  • Ting, L.H.*, Chvatal, S.A. (2011) “Decomposing muscle activity in motor tasks: methods and interpretation”. In Motor Control: Theories, Experiments, and Applications, Danion, F., Latash, M.L. (eds), Oxford University Press, New York. PDF or MATLAB Tutorial

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Refereed Manuscripts

  • Full, R.J., Blickhan, R., Ting, L.H. (1991) Leg design and function in hexapedal runners. Journal of Experimental Biology 158: 369-390. PDF
  • Blickhan, R., Full, R.J., and Ting, L. (1993) Exoskeletal strain: evidence for trot-gallop transition in rapidly moving ghost crabs. Journal of Experimental Biology 179: 301-321. PDF
  • Ting, L.H., Full, R.J., and Blickhan, R. (1994) Dynamic and static stability in hexapedal runners. Journal of Experimental Biology 197:251-2269. PDF
  • Ting, L.H., Raasch, C.C., Brown, D.A., Kautz, S.A., and Zajac, F.E. (1998) Sensorimotor state of the contralateral leg affects ipsilateral muscle coordination of pedaling. Journal of Neurophysiology 80(3): 1341-1351. PDF
  • Ting, L.H., Kautz, S.A., Brown, D.A., and Zajac, F.E., (1999) Bilateral integration of sensorimotor signaling during pedaling. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 860:513-516.
  • Ting, L.H., Kautz, S.A., Brown, D.A. and Zajac, F.E. (1999) Phase reversal of biomechanical function pairs and muscle activity in backward pedaling. Journal of Neurophysiology 81 (2): 544-551. PDF
  • Ting, L.H., Kautz, S.A., Brown, D.A., and Zajac, F.E. (2000) Influence of bilateral sensorimotor state on flexion-phase coordination of human locomotion. Journal of Neurophysiology 83: 3351:3365. PDF
  • Brizzi, L., Ting, L.H., Kouchtir-Devanne, N., Jami, L. and Zytnicki, D. (2002) Positive proprioceptive feedback elicited by isometric ankle flexor contractions on pretibial motoneurons in anesthetized cats. Journal of Neurophysiology 88:2207-2214. PDF
  • Stapley, P.J., Ting, L.H., Hulliger, M., Macpherson, J.M. (2002) Automatic postural responses to support surface translation are delayed by pyridoxine-induced propioceptive loss. Journal of Neuroscience 22(14):5803-5807. PDF
  • Ting L.H.*, Macpherson J.M. (2004) Ratio of shear to load ground reaction force may underlie the directional tuning of the automatic postural response to rotation and translation. Journal of Neurophysiology 92:808-823. PDF
  • Ting L.H.*, Macpherson J.M. (2005) A limited set of muscle synergies for force control during a postural task. Journal of Neurophysiology 93:609-613. PDF
  • Stapley, P.J., Ting, L.H., Kuifu, C., Everaert, D.G., Macpherson, J.M. (2006) Bilateral vestibular loss leads to active destabilization of balance during voluntary head turns in the standing cat. Journal of Neurophysiology 95:3783-3797. PDF
  • Torres-Oviedo, G., Macpherson J.M. Ting L.H.* (2006) Muscle synergy organization is robust across a variety of postural perturbations. Journal of Neurophysiology 96:1530-1546. PDF
  • McKay, J.L., Burkholder, T.J., Ting, L.H.* (2007) Biomechanical capabilities influence postural control strategies in the cat hindlimb. Journal of Biomechanics, 40(10):2254-2260. PDF
  • Macpherson, J.M, Everaert, D.G., Stapley, P.J., Ting, L.H (2007) Bilateral vestibular loss in cats leads to active destabilization of balance during pitch rotation of the support surface. Journal of Neurophysiology 97:4357-4367. PDF
  • Bunderson, N.E., Ting, L.H., Burkholder, T.J. (2007) Asymmetric interjoint feedback contributes to postural control of redundant multi-link systems. Journal of Neural Engineering 4:234-245. PDF
  • van Antwerp, K.V, Burkholder, T.J., Ting, L.H.* (2007) Interjoint coupling effects on muscle contributions to endpoint force and acceleration in a musculoskeletal model of the cat hindlimb. Journal of Biomechanics. PDF
  • Torres-Oviedo, G., Ting L.H.* (2007) Muscle synergies characterizing human postural responses. Journal of Neurophysiology. PDF
  • Lockhart, D.B., Ting L.H.* (2007) Optimal feedback transformations for balance. Nature Neuroscience. PDF; also, Matt Tresch’s News and Views commentary on the article.
  • McKay, J.L., Ting, L.H.*(2008) Functional muscle synergies constrain force production during postural tasks. Journal of Biomechanics 41(2):299-306. PDF
  • Welch, T.D.J., Ting, L.H.* (2008) A feedback model predicts muscle activity during human postural responses to support surface translations. Journal of Neurophysiology 99:1032-1038. PDF
  • Bunderson, N.E., Burkholder, T.J., Ting, L.H.* (2008) Reduction of neuromuscular redundancy for postural force generation using an intrinsic stability criterion. Journal of Biomechanics. PDF
  • Scrivens, J.E., DeWeerth, S.P., Ting, L.H.* (2008) A robotic device for understanding neuromechanical interactions during standing balance control. Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, Jun; 3(2):26002. PDF
  • Welch, T.D.J., Ting, L.H.* (2009) A feedback model explains the differential scaling of human postural responses to perturbation acceleration and velocity. Journal of Neurophysiology, 101(6):3294-309. PDF
  • Clark, D.J., Ting, L.H., Zajac, F.E., Neptune, R.R., Kautz, S.A. (2010) Merging of Healthy Motor Modules Predicts Reduced Locomotor Performance and Muscle Coordination Complexity Post-Stroke. Journal of Neurophysiology , 103:844-857. PDF
  • Trivedi, H., Leonard, J.A., Ting, L.H., Stapley, P.J. (2010) Postural responses to unexpected perturbations of balance during reaching. Experimental Brain Research, 202(2):485-491. PDF
  • Migliore, S.A., Ting, L.H., Deweerth, S.P. (2010) Passive joint stiffness in the hip and knee increases the energy efficiency of leg swinging. Autonomous Robots, 29(1):119-135. PDF
  • Torres-Oviedo, G., Ting L.H.* (2010) Subject-specific muscle synergies in human balance control are consistent across different biomechanical contexts. Journal of Neurophysiology, 103(6):3084-98. PDF
  • Bunderson, N.E., Ting, L.H., Burkholder, T.J. (2010) Directional constraint of endpoint force production emerges from hindlimb anatomy. Journal of Experimental Biology, 210(12):2131-41 PDF
  • Bingham, J.T., Choi, J.T., Ting, L.H.* (2011) Stability in a frontal plane model of balance requires coupled changes to postural configuration and neural feedback control. Journal of Neurophysiology, 106(1):437-48. PDF
  • Chvatal, S.A., Torres-Oviedo, G., Safavynia, S.A., Ting L.H.* (2011) Common muscle synergies for control of center of mass and force in non-stepping and stepping postural behaviors. Journal of Neurophysiology, 106:999-1015. PDF
  • Safavynia, S.A., Ting, L.H.* (2012) Task-level feedback can explain temporal recruitment of spatially-fixed muscle synergies throughout postural perturbations. Journal of Neurophysiology, 107:159-177. PDF
  • McKay, J.L., Ting, L.H.* (2012) Optimization of muscle activity for task-level goals predicts complex changes in limb forces across biomechanical contexts. PLoS Computational Biology, 8(4): e1002465. PDF
  • Bunderson, N.E., Bingham, J.T., Sohn, M.H., Ting, L.H.*, Burkholder, T.J. (in press) Neuromechanic: a computational platform for simulation and analysis of the neural control of movement. International Journal of Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering.

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Recent Abstracts

  • Bingham, J.T., Choi, J.T., Ting, L.H. Is wide stance stabilizing? Predictions of postural stability and stepping threshold from a frontal-plane delayed feedback model. Society for Neuroscience (San Diego, CA 2010).
  • Safavynia, S.A., Chvatal, S.A., Ting, L.H. Recruitment of muscle synergies by center-of-mass feedback throughout postural perturbations. Society for Neuroscience (San Diego, CA 2010).
  • Hayes, H.B., VanHiel, L.R., Chvatal, S.A., Ting, L.H., Tansey, K.E., Trumbower, R.D., Modularity of muscle activity during robot-assisted locomotion in persons with incomplete spinal cord injury. Society for Neuroscience (Washington, D.C., 2011)
  • Bingham, J.T., Ting, L.H. Decreased stance width compensates for increased neural delay in a frontal-plane delayed feedback model of standing balance: implications for aging. Society for Neuroscience (Washington, D.C., 2011).
  • McKay, J.L., Welch, T.D.J., Vidakovic, B., Ting, L.H. A method to determine statistically-significant differences between EMG waveforms in the time domain using wavelet-based functional-ANOVA. Society for Neuroscience (Washington, D.C., 2011).
  • Safavynia, S.A., Ting, L.H. A common feedback model can explain muscle synergy recruitment throughout postural responses in static and dynamic states. Society for Neuroscience (Washington, D.C., 2011).
  • Jilk, D.J., Safavynia, S.A., Ting, L.H. Contribution of vision to postural behaviors during continuous support-surface translations. Society for Neuroscience (Washington, D.C., 2011).

  • Chang, Y.-H., Ting, L.H. Passive stay mechanisms allows flamingos to sleep on one leg. Canadian Society of Biomechanics (Vancouver, BC 2012)
Hayes, H.B., VanHiel, L.R., Chvatal, S.A., Ting, L.H., Tansey, K.E., Trumbower, R.D., Modularity of muscle activity during robot-assisted locomotion in persons with incomplete spinal cord injury. Society for Neuroscience (Washington, D.C., 2011)

5. Bingham, J.T., Ting, L.H. Decreased stance width compensates for increased neural delay in a frontal-plane delayed feedback model of standing balance: implications for aging. Society for Neuroscience (Washington, D.C., 2011).

6. McKay, J.L., Welch, T.D.J., Vidakovic, B., Ting, L.H. A method to determine statistically-significant differences between EMG waveforms in the time domain using wavelet-based functional-ANOVA. Society for Neuroscience (Washington, D.C., 2011).

7. Safavynia, S.A., Ting, L.H. A common feedback model can explain muscle synergy recruitment throughout postural responses in static and dynamic states. Society for Neuroscience (Washington, D.C., 2011).

8. Jilk, D.J., Safavynia, S.A., Ting, L.H. Contribution of vision to postural behaviors during continuous support-surface translations. Society for Neuroscience (Washington, D.C., 2011).