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Main description:
This ground-breaking book brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines to discuss the control and coordination of processes involved in perceptually guided actions. The research area of motor control has become an increasingly multidisciplinary undertaking. Understanding the acquisition and performance of voluntary movements in biological and artificial systems requires the integration of knowledge from a variety of disciplines from neurophysiology to biomechanics.
Contents:
The Nature of Motor Control.- Nature of Motor Control: Not Strictly "Motor", Not Quite "Control".- Beyond Control: The Dynamics of Brain-Body-Environment Interaction in Motor Systems.- Towards Testable Neuromechanical Control Architectures for Running.- Control from an Allometric Perspective.- Synergies: Atoms of Brain and Behavior.- Nature of Motor Control: Perspectives and Issues.- What is Encoded in the Brain?.- Past, Present, and Emerging Principles in the Neural Encoding of Movement.- From Intention to Action: Motor Cortex and the Control of Reaching Movements.- Control of Muscle Synergies by Cortical Ensembles.- Behavioral and Neurophysiological Aspects of Target Interception.- Learning from Learning: What Can Visuomotor Adaptations Tell us About the Neuronal Representation of Movement?.- The Problem of Parametric Neural Coding in the Motor System.- Perception and Action.- to Section on Perception and Action.- Mutuality in the Perception of Affordances and the Control of Movement.- Object Avoidance During Locomotion.- The Roles of Vision and Proprioception in the Planning of Reaching Movements.- Using Predictive Motor Control Processes in a Cognitive Task: Behavioral and Neuroanatomical Perspectives.- The Human Mirror Neuron System and Embodied Representations.- Disorders of the Perceptual-Motor System.- Motor Learning.- Some Contemporary Issues in Motor Learning.- Motor Learning and Consolidation: The Case of Visuomotor Rotation.- Cortical Processing during Dynamic Motor Adaptation.- Motor Learning: Changes in the Structure of Variability in a Redundant Task.- Time Scales, Difficulty/Skill Duality, and the Dynamics of Motor Learning.- Bridging of Models for Complex Movements in 3D.- Bridging of Models for Complex Movements in 3D.- The Posture-Based Motion Planning Framework: New Findings Related to Object Manipulation, Moving Around Obstacles, Moving in Three Spatial Dimensions, and Haptic Tracking.- Grasping Occam's Razor.- Review of Models for the Generation of Multi-Joint Movements in 3-D.- The Hand as a Complex System.- Why the Hand?.- Selective Activation of Human Finger Muscles after Stroke or Amputation.- Neural Control of Hand Muscles During Prehension.- Multi-Finger Prehension: Control of a Redundant Mechanical System.- A Mathematical Approach to the Mechanical Capabilities of Limbs and Fingers.- Forty Years of Equilibrium-Point Hypothesis.- Origin and Advances of the Equilibrium-Point Hypothesis.- The Biomechanics of Force Production.- The Implications of Force Feedback for the ? Model.- Control and Calibration of Multi-Segment Reaching Movements.- The Equilibrium-Point Hypothesis - Past, Present and Future.
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Publication date: December, 2008
Pages: 752
Weight: 1417g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Biomechanics, Neurology, Neuroscience, Physiotherapy, Rehabilitation
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