The mission of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement (NCM) is to understand the mechanisms by which the central nervous system controls movement. The 33rdannual meeting of the Society was held this year from April 16thto 19thin Dubrovnik, Croatia. Hans Kainz and Paul Kaufmann attended the meeting and presented their work in two poster presentations:

 

• “Inter-participant similarity of muscle synergies is not increasing with external constraints during walking but is influenced by extraction algorithms and the chosen number of synergies.”

 

• “Movement smoothness decreases with increasing loads during squats and is higher in the eccentric than concentric phase: a novel framework on inter-joint movement fusion.”

 

The meeting provided fruitful new collaborations and meaningful input to the projects presented. Stay tuned for the full papers!