... of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA (e-mail: etole@gatech.edu ) 17 3 2008 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2008 2008 electromyography size principle wavelet analysis principal component analysis The basic functional unit of the neuromuscular system is the motor unit,which...

... of the active motor units and changing the number of motor units that are active at any one time ( Adrian and Bronk,1929 ). In a classic series of experiments the stretch reflex response of decerebrate cats revealed that motor units were recruited in an orderly fashion, termed the `size principle'( Henneman et...

... ( Sessle,2006 ). bone strain muscle recruitment size principle chewing © The Company of Biologists Limited 2007 2007 25 1 2007 * Author for correspondence (e-mail: rossc@uchicago.edu ) Data on strain magnitude, strain rate and load time from 11 out of 40 experiments...