Progress in motor control : a multidisciplinary perspective /

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Imprint:New York ; London : Springer, c2009.
Description:1 online resource (xviii, 734 p.) : ill. (some col.)
Language:English
Series:Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; 629
Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; 629.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11958116
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Other authors / contributors:Sternad, Dagmar.
ISBN:9780387770642
038777064X
6611950087 (electronic bk.)
9786611950088 (electronic bk.)
9780387770635 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0387770631 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:The research area of motor control has become a multidisciplinary undertaking. This book discusses the control and coordination of processes involved in perceptually guided actions.
Other form:Print version: Progress in motor control. New York ; London : Springer, c2009 9780387770635
Table of Contents:
  • Nature of motor control : not strictly "motor", not quite "control" / Michael T. Turvey
  • Beyond control : the dynamics of brain-body-environment interaction in motor systems / Randall D. Beer
  • Towards testable neuromechanical control architectures for running / Shai Revzen, Daniel E. Koditschek, and Robert J. Full
  • Control from an allometric perspective / Bruce J. West
  • Synergies : atoms of brain and behavior / J.A. Scott Kelso
  • Nature of motor control : perspectives and issues / Michael T. Turvey and Sergio Fonseca
  • Past, present, and emerging principles in the neural encoding of movement / Timothy J. Ebner, Claudia M. Hendrix, and Siavash Pasalar
  • From intention to action : motor cortex and the control of reaching movements / John F. Kalaska
  • Control of muscle synergies by cortical ensembles / Michelle M. Morrow, Eric A. Pohlmeyer, and Lee E. Miller
  • Behavioral and neurophysiological aspects of target interception / Hugo Merchant ... [et al.]
  • Learning from learning : what can visuomotor adaptations tell us about the neuronal representation of movement? / Rony Paz and Eilon Vaadia
  • The problem of parametric neural coding in the motor system / Jacob Reimer and Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos
  • Introduction to section on perception and action / Brett R. Fajen
  • Mutuality in the perception of affordances and the control of movement / Claudia Carello and Jeffrey B. Wagman
  • Object avoidance during locomotion / David A. McVea and Keir G. Pearson
  • The roles of vision and proprioception in the planning of reaching movements / Fabrice R. Sarlegna and Robert L. Sainburg
  • Using predictive motor control processes in a cognitive task : behavioral and neuroanatomical perspectives / James Stanley and R. Christopher Miall
  • The human mirror neuron system and embodied representations / Lisa Aziz-Zadeh and Richard B. Ivry
  • Disorders of the perceptual-motor system / Steven A. Jax and H. Branch Coslett
  • Some contemporary issues in motor learning / Karl M. Newell and Rajiv Ranganathan
  • Motor learning and consolidation : the case of visuomotor rotation / John W. Krakauer
  • Cortical processing during dynamic motor adaptation / Simon A. Overduin, Andrew G. Richardson, and Emilio Bizzi
  • Motor learning : changes in the structure of variability in a redundant task / Hermann Mùˆller and Dagmar Sternad
  • Time scales, difficulty/skill duality, and the dynamics of motor learning / Karl M. Newell, Yeou-Teh Liu, and Gottfried Mayer-Kress
  • Bridging of models for complex movements in 3D / Stan Gielen
  • The posture-based motion planning framework : new findings related to object manipulation, moving around obstacles, moving in three spatial dimensions, and haptic tracking / David A. Rosenbaum ... [et al.]
  • Grasping Occam's razor / Jeroen B.J. Smeets, Eli Brenner, and Juul Martin
  • Review models for the generation of multi-joint movemetns in 3-D / Stan Gielen
  • Why the hand? / Francisco J. Valero-Cuevas
  • Selective activation of human finger muscles after stroke or amputation / Marc H. Schieber ... [et al.]
  • Neural control of hand muscles during prehension / Jamie A. Johnston, Sara A. Winges, and Marco Santello
  • Multi-finger prehension : control of a redundant mechanical system / Mark L. Latash and Vladimir M. Zatsiorsky
  • A mathematical approach to the mechanical capabilities of limbs and fingers / Francisco J. Valero-Cuevas
  • Origin and advances of the equilibrium-point hypothesis / Anatol G. Feldman
  • The biomechanics of force production / Denis Rancourt and Neville Hogan
  • The implications of force feedback for the [lambda] model / Richard Nichols and Kyla T. Ross
  • Control and calibration of multi-segment reaching movements / James R. Lackner and Paul DiZio
  • The equilibrium-point hypothesis : past, present, and future / Anatol G. Feldman and Mindy F. Levin.