One more time about motor (and non-motor) synergies

@article{Latash2021OneMT,
  title={One more time about motor (and non-motor) synergies},
  author={Mark L. Latash},
  journal={Experimental Brain Research},
  year={2021},
  volume={239},
  pages={2951 - 2967},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:236989564}
}
The concept of synergy is revisited based on the recently translated classical book by Nikolai Bernstein and progress in understanding the physics and neurophysiology of biological action and the recent generalization of the concept of synergies for non-motor domains, including perception, is discussed.
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