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EMG signals were acquired using four 64-electrode arrays (256 total electrodes) positioned over the tibialis anterior or vastus lateralis muscles. This dataset enables investigation of motor unit recruitment and rate coding properties across diverse neuromodulatory inputs during sustained muscle contractions.\",\n  \"methods_description\": \"HDsEMG signals were recorded from either the tibialis anterior (TA) or vastus lateralis (VL) using four 2D electrode arrays (64 electrodes each; interelectrode spacing: 4 mm for TA, 8 mm for VL). Participants performed isometric contractions at 10-80% MVC. Force was recorded simultaneously using load cells. Electrode coordinates were standardized to a common reference frame (space-grid1), with reference and ground electrode positions reported relative to lower leg length.\",\n  \"keywords\": [\n    {\n      \"term\": \"Electromyography\",\n      \"subject_scheme\": \"MeSH\",\n      \"value_uri\": \"http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004576\"\n    },\n    {\n      \"term\": \"motor units\"\n    },\n    {\n      \"term\": \"Muscle Contraction\",\n      \"subject_scheme\": \"MeSH\",\n      \"value_uri\": \"http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009119\"\n    },\n    {\n      \"term\": \"isometric exercise\"\n    },\n    {\n      \"term\": \"tibialis anterior\"\n    },\n    {\n      \"term\": \"vastus lateralis\"\n    },\n    {\n      \"term\": \"rate coding\"\n    }\n  ],\n  \"source_hash\": \"82435087f14eb6f8e900fc822febfa1f5deafc10020401c22c0ace40ff486ec9\"\n}","last_activity_at":"2026-04-08 07:45:35","source":null,"source_id":null,"subject_count":16,"modalities":"emg","age_min":null,"age_max":null,"file_size":5914110092,"total_files":125,"tasks":"isometric10percentmvc,isometric20percentmvc,isometric30percentmvc,isometric40percentmvc,isometric50percentmvc,isometric60percentmvc,isometric70percentmvc,isometric80percentmvc","metadata_columns_error":null,"staleness_warn_stage":null,"staleness_admin_notified_at":null,"authors":"Simon Avrillon, Francois Hug, Roger M. 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EMG signals were recorded from \neither the tibialis anterior (TA) or the vastus lateralis (VL) muscles using four arrays \nof 64 surface electrodes for a total of 256 electrodes.\n\n### Population\n16 young individuals volunteered to participate either in the experiment on the \ntibialis anterior (n=8; age: 27 +/- 3) or on the vastus lateralis (n=8; age: 27 +/- 10).\n\n### Electrode placement\nSurface EMG signals were recorded from the TA or the VL using 4 two-dimensional arrays of \n64 electrodes (GR04MM1305 for the TA; GR08MM1305 for the VL, 13×5 gold-coated electrodes with \none electrode absent on a corner; interelectrode distance: 4 and 8 mm, respectively; OT Bioelettronica, Italy). \nThe grids were positioned over the muscle bellies to cover the largest surface while staying away from \nthe boundaries of the muscle identified by manual palpation. Before placing the electrodes, the \nskin was shaved and cleaned with an abrasive pad and water. A biadhesive foam layer was used to \nhold each array of electrodes onto the skin, and conductive paste filled the cavities of the \nadhesive layers to make skin-electrode contact.\n\n### Tibialis anterior: ankle dorsiflexions\nFor the session of ankle dorsiflexions, participants sat on a massage table with the \nhips flexed at 45 degree, 0 degree being the hip neutral position, and the knees fully extended. \nThe foot of the dominant leg (right in all participants) was fixed onto the pedal of an \nankle dynamometer (OT Bioelettronica, Turin, Italy) positioned at 30 degree in the plantarflexion \ndirection, 0 degree being the foot perpendicular to the shank. The thigh and the foot were \nfixed with inextensible Velcro straps. Force signals were recorded with a load cell \n(CCT Transducer s.a.s, Turin, Italy) connected in-series to the pedal using the same \nacquisition system as for the EMG recordings (EMG-Quattrocento; OT Bioelettronica, Italy).\n\n### Vastus lateralis: knee extensions\nFor the session of knee extensions, participants sat on an instrumented chair with the hips \nflexed at 85 degree, 0 degree being the hip neutral position, and the knees flexed at 85 degree, \n0 degree being the knees fully extended. The torso and the thighs were fixed to the chair with \nVelcro straps and the tibia were positioned against a rigid resistance connected to force sensors \n(Metitur, Jyvaskyla, Finland). 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