Neuroprosthetics for Auricular Muscles: Neural Networks and Clinical Aspects [PDF]
Frontiers in Neurology, 2018 The mammalian external ear houses extrinsic and intrinsic auricular muscles. There are three extrinsic auricular muscles—the posterior, superior, and anterior auricular muscles—and six intrinsic muscles—the helicis major and minor, tragicus, anti ...
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Machine-Learning-Based Detecting of Eyelid Closure and Smiling Using Surface Electromyography of Auricular Muscles in Patients with Postparalytic Facial Synkinesis: A Feasibility Study [PDF]
Diagnostics, 2023 Surface electromyography (EMG) allows reliable detection of muscle activity in all nine intrinsic and extrinsic ear muscles during facial muscle movements.
Jakob Hochreiter +6 more
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Human-machine interface for two-dimensional steering control with the auricular muscles [PDF]
Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2023 Human-machine interfaces (HMIs) can be used to decode a user's motor intention to control an external device. People that suffer from motor disabilities, such as spinal cord injury, can benefit from the uses of these interfaces.
Daniel J. L. L. Pinheiro +6 more
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Cortical representation of auricular muscles in humans: A robot-controlled TMS mapping and fMRI study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 BACKGROUND:Most humans have the ability to activate the auricular muscles. Although (intentional) control suggests an involvement of higher cortical centers underlying posterior auricular muscle (PAM) activation, the cortical representation of the ...
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Development of a training paradigm for voluntary control of the peri-auricular muscles: a feasibility study [PDF]
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2019 Background Spinal cord injury (SCI) can lead to severe and permanent functional deficits. In humans, peri-auricular muscles (PAMs) do not serve any physiological function, though their innervation is preserved in even high level SCI.
Siwaphorn Chanthaphun +3 more
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Musculocartilaginous structure of the external ear in dromedary camels with special reference to auricular nerve blocks [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary ScienceAimUnderstanding the external ear’s anatomy and the ear nerve blocks (particularly in the external acoustic meatus) is crucial for facilitating effective ear movement and treating clinical cases requiring an ear nerve block. The purpose of this study was
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Diagnostics, 2022 There are currently no data on the electromyography (EMG) of all intrinsic and extrinsic ear muscles. The aim of this work was to develop a standardized protocol for a reliable surface EMG examination of all nine ear muscles in twelve healthy ...
Hanna Rüschenschmidt +3 more
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Electromyographic correlates of effortful listening in the vestigial auriculomotor system [PDF]
Frontiers in NeuroscienceRecently, electromyographic (EMG) signals of auricular muscles have been shown to be an indicator of spatial auditory attention in humans, based on a vestigial pinna-orienting system.
Andreas Schroeer +13 more
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2017 Background: Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN-DBS) and the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) significantly improve cardinal motor symptoms and postural instability and gait difficulty, respectively, in Parkinson’s disease (PD).Objective
Yusuf O. Cakmak +9 more
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923 EAR MUSCLES AND AURICULAR ANOMALIES [PDF]
Pediatric Research, 1978 Our studies of the auricular muscles in relation to auricular form in early development, utilizing both normal and abnormal examples, indicate that these muscles exert a major role in the form and positioning of the cartilagenous pinna. Defects in the development or function of specific ear muscles may give rise to particular deformations of the ...
Smith David W
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