Myra F Laird, Jose Iriarte-Diaz, Craig D Byron, Michael C Granatosky, Andrea B Taylor, Callum F Ross
Dynamic changes in jaw movements and bite forces depend on muscle architectural and neural factors that have rarely been compared within the same muscle. Here we investigate how regional muscle architecture dynamics-fascicle rotation, shortening, lengthening and architectural gear ratio (AGR)-vary during chewing across a functionally heterogeneous muscle. We evaluate whether timing in architecture dynamics relates to gape, food material properties and/or muscle activation. We also examine whether static estimates of temporalis fibre architecture track variation in dynamic architecture...
December 4, 2023: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences