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

Data Management Plan
Data Management Plan.

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

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

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

One Video News Releases
One Video News Releases.

Established measurement protocol with descripton of prepared and required instrumentation
Established measurement protocol with descripton of prepared and required instrumentation.

Project Website
Project Website.

Communication and dissemination and exploitation plan
Communication and dissemination and exploitation plan.

Borràs, Marta, Sergio Romero, Leidy Y Serna, Joan F Alonso, Alejandro Bachiller, Miguel A Mañanas, and Mónica Rojas. Assessing Motor Cortical Activity: How Repetitions Impact Motor Execution and Imagery Analysis. Psychophysiology 62, no. 6 (2025): e70090. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.70090

Jia, Tianyu, Haiyang Long, Ciaran McGeady, Xingchen Yang, Francesca Colacrai, Jiarong Wang, Linhong Ji, Chong Li, and Dario Farina. Physiology-Inspired EEG Transformer for Predicting Movement Transitions in Bimanual Tasks. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (2025). https://doi.org/10.1109/jbhi.2025.3622729

Mijancos-Martínez, Gema, Alejandro Bachiller, Inés Fernández-Linsenbarth, Sergio Romero, Leidy Y Serna, Vicente Molina, and Miguel Ángel Mañanas. Individualized Time Windows Enhance TMS-EEG Signal Characterization and Improve Assessment of Cortical Function in Schizophrenia. European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience 275, no. 3 (2025): 785-97. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-024-01859-z

Shirzadi, Mehdi, Mónica Rojas Martínez, Joan Francesc Alonso, Leidy Yanet Serna,Joaquim Chaler, Miguel Angel Mañanas, and Hamid Reza Marateb. AML-Decoder: Advanced Machine Learning for HD-SEMG Signal Classification—Decoding Lateral Epicondylitis in Forearm Muscles. Diagnostics 14, no. 20 (2024): 2255. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics14202255

Škarabot, Jakob, Andrea Casolo, Thomas G. Balshaw, Sumiaki Maeo, Marcel Bahia Lanza, Aleš Holobar, Dario Farina, Jonathan P. Folland, and Alessandro Del Vecchio. Greater motor unit discharge rate during rapid contractions in chronically strengthtrained individuals. Journal of Neurophysiology 132, no. 6 (2024): 1896-1906. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00017.2024

Valenčič, Tamara, Paul Ansdell, Callum G. Brownstein, Padraig M. Spillane, Aleš Holobar, and Jakob Škarabot. Motor unit discharge rate modulation during isometric contractions to failure is intensity-and modality-dependent. The Journal of Physiology 602, no. 10 (2024): 2287-2314. https://doi.org/10.1113/JP286143

Murks, Nina, Jakob Škarabot, Matej Kramberger, Gašper Sedej, Tamara Valenčič, Christopher D Connelly, Haydn Thomason, Matjaž Divjak, and Aleš Holobar. The efficiency of manual editing of high-density surface electromyogram decomposition depends on the recorded muscle and contraction level, but less on the operator'se experience, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering,2025. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSRE.2025.3600755

Magdič, Marša, Aleš Holobar, Matej Kramberger, Matjaž Vogrin, Nina Murks, Anita Fekonja, and Miloš Kalc. Acute effects of orofacial, neck, and shoulder relaxation exercises and chewing on soleus H-reflex and motor unit discharge patterns. Journal of Neurophysiology 133, no. 6 (2025): 1886-1901. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00461.2024

Jasenská, Monika, Barbora Kolářová, Jiří Horníček, and Aleš Holobar. Fast Automated Multimodal Characterization of Gait Neural Control in a Clinical Setting. TechRxiv. December 09, 2025. https://doi.org/10.36227/techrxiv.176532019.93371742/v1

Grison, Agnese, Alexander Kenneth Clarke, Silvia Muceli, Jaime Ibáñez, Aritra Kundu, and Dario Farina. A Particle Swarm Optimised Independence Estimator for Blind Source Separation of Neurophysiological Time Series. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (2024). https://doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2024.3446806 Preprint version (CC-BY licence): https://doi.org/10.36227/techrxiv.24514270

Grison, Agnese, Irene Mendez Guerra, Alexander Kenneth Clarke, Silvia Muceli, Jaime Ibáñez, and Dario Farina. Unlocking the Full Potential of High-Density Surface EMG: Novel Non-Invasive High-Yield Motor Unit Decomposition. The Journal of Physiology 603, no. 8 (2025): 2281-300. https://doi.org/10.1113/JP287913

Grison, Agnese, Ciara Gibbs, Vishal Rawji, Lara Gouveia Vila, Isabella Szczech, Rejin Varghese, Peter Bryan et al. Multidimensional motoneuron control using intramuscular microelectrode arrays in tetraplegic spinal cord injury. medRxiv (2025): 2025-07. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.17.25331429

Valenčič Tamara, Sumiaki Maeo, Stefan Kluzek, Aleš Holobar, Jakob Škarabot, and Jonathan P. Folland. Motor unit discharge properties of the vastii muscles and their modulation with contraction level depend on the knee-joint angle. Journal of Applied Physiology 140, no. 1 (2026): 322-337. https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00951.2024

Kalc Miloš, Aleš Holobar, Matej Kramberger, Nina Murks, and Jakob Škarabot. Spinal Mechanisms in Post-Activation Potentiation: Facilitation of Presynaptic Inhibition Contrasts H-Reflex Amplitude Reduction. bioRxiv (2026): 2026-01. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.16.699288

Jasenská Monika, Pavel Hok, Martin Kojan, Ondřej Burkot, Barbora Kolářová, Aleš Holobar, Petr Hluštík: Precise modeling of task-related sensorimotor activation based on simultaneous surface electromyography, medRxiv 2026.02.01.26345279; https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.02.01.26345279

Mehdi Shirzadi, Arezoo Mirshamsi, Alp Eşrefoğlu, Monica Rojas-Martínez, Hamid Reza Marateb, Miquel Angel Mañanas, and Taian Vieira: A new force profile signal for a convex solution of muscle force estimation from electromyographic signals 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2023. doi: 10.1109/EMBC40787.2023.10340594

Leon Kutoš (UM), Jakob Škarabot (Loughborough University, UK), and Aleš Holobar (UM) Identification of clusters of inseparable motor units from highdensity electromyograms of biceps brachii muscle and published it at the 32nd International Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference ERK 2023, September 2023.

Nina Murks (UM), Leon Kutoš (UM), Matej Kramberger (UM), Blanka Zicher (IMPERIAL), Alejandro Pascual Valdunciel (IMPERIAL), Dario Farina (IMPERIAL) and Aleš Holobar (UM) Hybrid neural interfaces and novel ways of assessing corticomuscular coupling, Dialogues in Neurodegenerative Disorders: Care, communication and biomedical challenges” conference, 2024, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Leon Kutoš (UM), Matjaž Divjak (UM) and Aleš Holobar (UM) Activity index outperforms cumulative spike train and amplitude envelopes in surface EMG coherence analysis ISEK XXIV international conference, Nagoya, Japan, 2024

Nina Murks (UM), Jakob Škarabot (Loughborough University, UK), Matej Kramberger (UM), Gašper Sedej (UM), Tamara Valenčič (UM), Christopher Connelly (Loughborough University, UK), Haydn Thomason (Loughborough University, UK), Matjaž Divjak (UM) and Aleš Holobar (UM) On time effectiveness of manual editing of motor unit spike trains ISEK XXIV international conference, Nagoya, Japan, 2024

Leon Kutoš (UM), Miloš Kalc, Matej Kramberger (UM); Filip Urh (UM) and Aleš Holobar (UM) On the efficacy of coherence-based assessment of functionalq coupling between pools of motor units, 33th International Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference ERK 2024, Portorož, Slovenia.

Nina Murks (UM), Jakob Škarabot, Matej Kramberger(UM), Gašper Sedej (UM), Tamara Valenčič, Christopher D Connely, Haydn Thomason, Matjaž Divjak (UM) and Aleš Holobar (UM) 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. the 33th International Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference ERK 2024, Portorož, Slovenia.

Alejandro Pascual (IMPERIAL), M. Gorkem Ozyurt (UCL, UK), Filipe Nascimento (UCL, UK), Marco Beato (UCL, UK), Robert Brownstone (UCL, UK), Martin Koltzenburg (UCL, UK) and Dario Farina (IMPERIAL) Characterization of spinal circuits withhigh density surface electromyography (HDsEMG) ISEK XXIV international conference, Nagoya, Japan, 2024

Ciaran McGeady (IMPERIAL) and Dario Farina (IMPERIAL) Movement-specific beta-band modulation during movement cancellation in EMG ISEK XXIV international conference 2024, Nagoya, Japan

Laura Ferrante (IMPERIAL), Deren Y. Barsakcioglu (IMPERIAL), Silvia Muceli (CHALMERS), Anna Bösendorfer (Medical University of Vienna, Austria), Benedikt Baumgartner (Medical University of Vienna, Austria), Oskar Aszmann (Medical University of Vienna, Austria), Dario Farina (IMPERIAL) Interfacing with motor unit activity using high-density thin-film electrodes following targeted muscle reinnervation, ISEK XXIV international conference, Nagoya, Japan, 2024

Nina Murks (UM), Jakob Škarabot, Matej Kramberger (UM), Gašper Sedej (UM), Tamara Valenčič, Christopher D Connelly, Haydn Thomason, Matjaž Divjak (UM) and Aleš Holobar (UM) Manual Editing Significantly Improves the Accuracy of Motor Unit Recruitment Threshold and Discharge Rate Assessment from Synthetic HighDensity Surface Electromyograms, 34th International Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference ERK 2025, Portorož, Slovenia.

Aleš Holobar (UM), Hatice Kumru (Guttmann) High-density neural interfaces and AI-based analysis of neural codes: facts and future prospects, "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 September 2025, London, UK.