ROBERTO MERLETTI is Founding Director of the Laboratory for Engineering of the Neuromuscular System and Professor of Rehabilitation Engineering in the Department of Electronics, Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He has co-authored and authored books such as Atlas of Muscle Innervation Zones: Understanding Surface Electromyography and Its Applications (Springer, 2012), and Electromyography: Physiology, Engineering, and Noninvasive Applications (co-editor with P. Parker, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2004). DARIO FARINA is Professor and Founding Director of the Institute for Neurorehabilitation Systems at the University Medical Center Göttingen, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany. Prof. Farina was the lead editor for Introduction to Neural Engineering for Motor Rehabilitation (Wiley-IEEE Press, 2013).

• 1 Physiology of Muscle Activation and Force Generation 1R. M. Enoka and J. Duchateau2 Biophysics of the Generation of EMG Signals 30D. Farina, D. F. Stegeman, and R. Merletti3 Detection and Conditioning of Surface EMG Signals 54R. Merletti, A. Botter, and U. Barone4 Single-Channel Techniques for Information Extraction from the Surface EMG Signal 91E. A. Clancy, F. Negro, and D. Farina5 Techniques for Information Extraction from the Surface EMG Signal: High-Density Surface EMG 126R. Merletti, T. M. Vieira, and D. Farina6 Muscle Coordination, Motor Synergies, and Primitives from Surface EMG 158Y. P. Ivanenko, A. D'avella, and F. Lacquaniti7 Surface EMG Decomposition  180A. Holobar, D. Farina, and D. Zazula8 EMG Modeling and Simulation 210M. M. Lowery9 Electromyography-Driven Modeling for Simulating Subject-Specific Movement at the Neuromusculoskeletal Level 247M. Sartori, D. G. Lloyd, T. F. Besier, J. W. Fernandez, and D. Farina10 Muscle Force and Myoelectric Manifestations of Muscle Fatigue in Voluntary and Electrically Elicited Contractions 273R. Merletti, B. Afsharipour, J. Dideriksen, and D. Farina11 EMG of Electrically Stimulated Muscles 311A. Botter and R. Merletti12 Surface EMG Applications in Neurophysiology 333S. Baudry, M. A. Minetto, and J. Duchateau13 Surface EMG in Ergonomics and Occupational Medicine 361M. Gazzoni, B. Afsharipour, and R.Merletti14 Applications in Proctology and Obstetrics 392R. Merletti15 EMG and Posture in Its Narrowest Sense 408T. M. Vieira, D. Farina, and I. D. Loram16 Applications in Movement and Gait Analysis 440A. Merlo and I. Campanini17 Applications in Musculoskeletal Physical Therapy 460D. Falla18 Surface EMG Biofeedback 485A. Gallina, M. Gazzoni, D. Falla, and R. Merletti19 EMG in Exercise Physiology and Sports 501A. Rainoldi, T. Moritani, and G. Boccia20 Surface Electromyography for Man–Machine Interfacing in Rehabilitation Technologies 540D. Farina and M. SartoriIndex 561