Hybrid neuroscience based on cerebral and muscular information for motor rehabilitation and neuromuscular disorders

Deliverables

Training activities: workshops, summer schools, hands-on training (mid-term)
Progress report

Mid-term technical and financial report to the EC, including the progress report

The welcome protocol will contain procedures related to: 1) Incorporation to the research group, 2) Knowing the campus and the city, and 3) Research infrastructure.

Handbook of management

Project management handbook will summarize all the required knowledge for the good management of the project (in terms of administrative forms, financial aspects, quality process, etc.).

Communication and dissemination and exploitation plan
Established measurement protocol with prepared instrumentation

Established measurement protocol with descripton of prepared and required instrumentation.

One Video News Releases
Project Website

Data Management Plan

Publications

Assessing Motor Cortical Activity: How Repetitions Impact Motor Execution and Imagery Analysis

Author(s): Marta Borràs, Sergio Romero, Leidy Y. Serna, Joan F. Alonso, Alejandro Bachiller, Miguel A. Mañanas, Mónica Rojas
Published in: Psychophysiology, Issue 62, 2025, ISSN 0048-5772
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/PSYP.70090

Physiology-Inspired EEG Transformer for Predicting Movement Transitions in Bimanual Tasks

Author(s): Tianyu Jia, Haiyang Long, Ciaran McGeady, Xingchen Yang, Francesca Colacrai, Jiarong Wang, Linhong Ji, Chong Li, Dario Farina
Published in: IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2025, ISSN 2168-2194
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2025.3622729

Acute effects of orofacial, neck, and shoulder relaxation exercises and chewing on soleus H-reflex and motor unit discharge patterns

Author(s): Marša Magdič, Aleš Holobar, Matej Kramberger, Matjaž Vogrin, Nina Murks, Anita Fekonja, Miloš Kalc
Published in: Journal of Neurophysiology, Issue 133, 2025, ISSN 0022-3077
Publisher: American Physiological Society
DOI: 10.1152/JN.00461.2024

Assessing SICI Cortical Inhibition With DLPFC TMS‐EEG Using Different ISI Values

Author(s): Gema Mijancos‐Martínez, Alejandro Bachiller, Inés Fernández‐Linsenbarth, Saúl J. Ruiz‐Gómez, Sergio Romero, Vicente Molina, Miguel Ángel Mañanas
Published in: Psychophysiology, Issue 63, 2026, ISSN 0048-5772
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/PSYP.70229

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Author(s): Mijancos Martínez, Gema; Bachiller Matarranz, Alejandro; Fernández Linsenbarth, Inés; Romero Lafuente, Sergio; Serna Higuita, Leidy Yanet; Molina, Vicente; Mañanas Villanueva, Miguel Ángel
Published in: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 2024, ISSN 0940-1334
Publisher: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/S00406-024-01859-Z

Unlocking the full potential of high‐density surface EMG: novel non‐invasive high‐yield motor unit decomposition

Author(s): Agnese Grison, Irene Mendez Guerra, Alexander Kenneth Clarke, Silvia Muceli, Jaime Ibáñez, Dario Farina
Published in: The Journal of Physiology, Issue 603, 2025, ISSN 0022-3751
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2410.14800

Greater motor unit discharge rate during rapid contractions in chronically strength-trained individuals

Author(s): Jakob Škarabot, Andrea Casolo, Thomas G. Balshaw, Sumiaki Maeo, Marcel Bahia Lanza, Aleš Holobar, Dario Farina, Jonathan P. Folland, Alessandro Del Vecchio
Published in: Journal of Neurophysiology, Issue 132, 2024, ISSN 0022-3077
Publisher: American Physiological Society
DOI: 10.1152/JN.00017.2024

Feedback parameters for a closed-loop multiple-input multiple-output model of the upper limb

Author(s): Ian Syndergaard; Daniel B. Free; Dario Farina; Steven K. Charles
Published in: PLOS Computational Biology, 2025, ISSN 1553-7358
Publisher: PLOS
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PCBI.1013183

Decoding firings of a large population of human motor units from high‐density surface electromyogram in response to transcranial magnetic stimulation

Author(s): Škarabot, Jakob, Claudia Ammann, Thomas G. Balshaw, Matjaž Divjak, Filip Urh, Nina Murks, Guglielmo Foffani, and Aleš Holobar
Published in: Journal of Physiology, ISSN 0022-3751
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1113/JP284043

Motor unit discharge properties of the vastii muscles and their modulation with contraction level depend on the knee-joint angle

Author(s): Tamara Valenčič, Sumiaki Maeo, Stefan Kluzek, Aleš Holobar, Jakob Škarabot, Jonathan P. Folland
Published in: Journal of Applied Physiology, Issue 140, 2026, ISSN 8750-7587
Publisher: American Physiological Society
DOI: 10.1152/JAPPLPHYSIOL.00951.2024

The Efficiency of Manual Editing of High-Density Surface Electromyogram Decomposition Depends on the Recorded Muscle and Contraction Level but Less on the Operator’s Experience

Author(s): Nina Murks, Jakob Škarabot, Matej Kramberger, Matjaž Divjak, Gašper Sedej, Tamara Valenčič, Christopher D. Connelly, Haydn Thomason, Aleš Holobar
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Issue 33, 2025, ISSN 1534-4320
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2025.3600755

AML-DECODER: Advanced Machine Learning for HD-sEMG Signal Classification—Decoding Lateral Epicondylitis in Forearm Muscles

Author(s): Shirzadi, Mehdi; Rojas Martínez, Mónica Marlene; Alonso López, Joan Francesc; Serna Higuita, Leidy Yanet; Chaler Vilaseca, Joaquim Lluís; Mañanas Villanueva, Miguel Ángel; Marateb, Hamid Reza
Published in: Diagnostics, 2024, ISSN 2075-4418
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/DIAGNOSTICS14202255

Assessing SICI Cortical Inhibition With DLPFC TMS‐EEG Using Different ISI Values

Author(s): Gema Mijancos‐Martínez, Alejandro Bachiller, Inés Fernández‐Linsenbarth, Saúl J. Ruiz‐Gómez, Sergio Romero, Vicente Molina, Miguel Ángel Mañanas
Published in: Psychophysiology, Issue 63, 2026, ISSN 0048-5772
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/PSYP.70229

Motor unit discharge rate modulation during isometric contractions to failure is intensity‐ and modality‐dependent

Author(s): Tamara Valenčič, Paul Ansdell, Callum G. Brownstein, Padraig M. Spillane, Aleš Holobar, Jakob Škarabot
Published in: The Journal of Physiology, Issue 602, 2024, ISSN 0022-3751
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1113/JP286143

A Particle Swarm Optimized Independence Estimator for Blind Source Separation of Neurophysiological Time Series

Author(s): Agnese Grison, Alexander Kenneth Clarke, Silvia Muceli, Jaime Ibáñez, Aritra Kundu, Dario Farina
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Issue 72, 2025, ISSN 0018-9294
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2024.3446806

High-density neural interfaces and AI-based analysis of neural codes: facts and future prospects

Author(s): Aleš Holobar, Hatice Kumru
Published in: """Exploring a New Frontier in Brain Research and Neural Codes: Non-invasive Neural Interfaces and AI-driven Decoding of Neural Codes - Present Realities and Future Possibilities"" symposium, 19th European Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology, 9th -12th of S"
Publisher: 19th European Congress for Clinical Neurophysiology (ECCN)

Characterization of spinal circuits withhigh density surface electromyography (HDsEMG)

Author(s): Alejandro Pascual, M. Gorkem Ozyurt, Filipe Nascimento, Marco Beato, Robert Brownstone, Martin Koltzenburg and Dario Farina
Published in: 2024
Publisher: ISEK

Manual Editing Significantly Improves the Accuracy of Motor Unit Recruitment Threshold and Discharge Rate Assessment from Synthetic HighDensity Surface Electromyograms

Author(s): Nina Murks, Jakob Škarabot, Matej Kramberger, Gašper Sedej, Tamara Valenčič, Christopher D Connelly, Haydn Thomason, Matjaž Divjak and Aleš Holobar
Published in: 34th International Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference ERK 2025, Portorož, Slovenia, 2025, ISSN 2591-0442
Publisher: Slovenska sekcija IEEE

A new force profile signal for a convex solution of muscle force estimation from electromyographic signals

Author(s): Mehdi Shirzadi, Arezoo Mirshamsi, Alp Eşrefoğlu, Monica Rojas-Martínez, Hamid Reza Marateb, Miquel Angel Mañanas, and Taian Vieira
Published in: 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2023, 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC40787.2023.10340594

Hybrid neural interfaces and novel ways of assessing corticomuscular coupling

Author(s): Nina Murks, Leon Kutoš, Matej Kramberger, Blanka Zicher, Alejandro Pascual Valdunciel, Dario Farina and Aleš Holobar
Published in: Dialogues in Neurodegenerative Disorders: Care, communication and biomedical challenges” conference, 2024, Ljubljana, Slovenia., 2024
Publisher: Neurocare - Dialogues on neurodegenerative disorders

Interfacing with motor unit activity using high-density thin-film electrodes

Author(s): Laura Ferrante, Deren Y. Barsakcioglu, Silvia Muceli, Anna Bösendorfer, Benedikt Baumgartner, Oskar Aszmann, Dario Farina
Published in: ISEK XXIV international conference 2024, Nagoya, Japan, 2024
Publisher: ISEK

Activity index outperforms cumulative spike train and amplitude envelopes in surface EMG coherence analysis

Author(s): Leon Kutoš, Matjaž Divjak and Aleš Holobar
Published in: ISEK XXIV international conference, Nagoya, Japan, 2024, 2024
Publisher: ISEK

Motor Unit Editing Time in High-Density EMG Decomposition Decreases with the Operator's Experience and Pulse-to-Noise Ratio but Does Not Depend on Simulated Muscle

Author(s): Nina Murks, Jakob Škarabot, Matej Kramberger, Gašper Sedej, Tamara Valenčič, Christopher D Connely, Haydn Thomason, Matjaž Divjak and Aleš Holobar
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Slovenska sekcija, IEEE

Identification of clusters of inseparable motor units from high-density electromyograms of biceps brachii muscle

Author(s): Leon Kutoš, Jakob Škarabot, Aleš Holobar
Published in: Proceedings of the Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference ERK, 2023, ISSN 2591-0442
Publisher: Ljubljana : Slovenska sekcija IEEE, 2014-

Movement-specific beta-band modulation during movement cancellation in EMG

Author(s): Ciaran McGeady and Dario Farina
Published in: ISEK XXIV international conference 2024, Nagoya, Japan, 2024
Publisher: ISEK

On time effectiveness of manual editing of motor unit spike trains

Author(s): Nina Murks, Jakob Škarabot, Matej Kramberger, Gašper Sedej, Tamara Valenčič, Christopher Connelly, Haydn Thomason, Matjaž Divjak and Aleš Holobar
Published in: ISEK XXIV international conference, Nagoya, Japan, 2024, 2024
Publisher: ISEK

On the efficacy of coherence-based assessment of functional coupling between pools of motor units

Author(s): Leon Kutoš, Miloš Kalc, Matej Kramberger, Filip Urh and Aleš Holobar
Published in: 33th International Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference ERK 2024, Portorož, Slovenia
Publisher: Slovenska sekcija, IEEE

Project Website

Published in: HybridNeuro website
Publisher: University of Maribor

WHY TWINNING MATTERS: Factsheets for Policymakers, Research Community, and the Public

Author(s): Trakalova, E., Öztürk, C., Hana, O., Tanja, B., Blanka, M., Yasemin, E., Burcu, K., Viera, P., Serena, C., & Filiz, O.
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17594764

Twinning for Europe's Competitiveness: Keeping Excellence Connected Across All Regions

Author(s): Cem Öztürk; Hana Owsianková; Tanja Botić; Emilie Trakalova; Blanka Marušincová; Yasemin Ertan; Burcu Kıran; Viera Pechancová; Serena Cogoni; Filiz Onat
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17589583

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