{"id":7824,"date":"2019-05-22T16:01:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/electromyography_-emg\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:01:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:01:03","slug":"electromyography_-emg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/electromyography_-emg\/","title":{"rendered":"Electromyography (EMG)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electrical activity recorded from muscles by means of skin (surface) electrodes affixed to the belly of muscles or needle (intramuscular) electrodes inserted into the muscles. &nbsp;The electrodes detect a small electrical potential generated by muscle fibers contracting when a muscle is voluntarily contracted. &nbsp;As the contraction is increased, more fibers produce an action potential.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"action_potential\">Action potential<\/a>, Muscle fiber    <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electrical activity recorded from muscles by means of skin (surface) electrodes affixed to the belly of muscles or needle (intramuscular) electrodes inserted into the muscles. &nbsp;The electrodes detect a small electrical potential generated by muscle fibers contracting when a muscle is voluntarily contracted. &nbsp;As the contraction is increased, more fibers produce an action potential.&nbsp; See &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/electromyography_-emg\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Electromyography (EMG)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}