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    • Biomedical Engineering
    • Neuroscience
    • Rehabilitation Technology

    Background:

    • Modern myoelectric prosthetic hands offer advanced dexterity but lack intuitive control.
    • Pattern Recognition (PR) control aims to enhance human-machine interfaces for intuitive prosthetic use.
    • Effective PR control relies on users generating high-quality electromyogram (EMG) patterns, necessitating user training.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate the effectiveness of different feedback levels on user training for PR control.
    • To determine if EMG pattern quality correlates with user performance in PR control.
    • To establish optimal training strategies for myoelectric prosthetic control.

    Main Methods:

    • 37 able-bodied participants trained PR control over five days.
    • Three feedback conditions were tested: no feedback, visual feedback, and visual feedback with coaching.
    • EMG pattern quality and user performance were assessed pre- and post-training.

    Main Results:

    • Training significantly improved PR control performance across all participants.
    • No significant interaction effect of feedback level on performance was observed.
    • Participants without external feedback produced higher amplitude EMG patterns, but this did not correlate with performance.

    Conclusions:

    • User training is highly effective for improving PR control in myoelectric prosthetics, irrespective of feedback type.
    • Current EMG quality metrics do not strongly correlate with user performance.
    • Further research can optimize feedback strategies to enhance PR control training.