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Motor control : theories, experiments, and applications / edited by Frederic Danion, Mark L. Latash.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motor ability.
- Human locomotion.
- Movement--physiology.
- Motor Activity--physiology.
- Motor Skills--physiology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Movement--physiology.
- Motor Activity--physiology.
- Motor Skills--physiology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 511 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Theories, experiments, and applications
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Motor control has established itself as an area of scientific research characterized by a multi-disciplinary approach. The book offers a collection of chapters written by the most prominent researchers in the field.
- Contents:
- Contents; Contributors; Part 1 Motor Control: Control of a Complex System; 1 Anticipatory Control of Voluntary Action: Merging the Ideas of Equilibrium-point Control and Synergic Control; 2 Object Representations Used in Action and Perception; 3 A Canonical-Dissipative Approach to Control and Coordination in the Complex System Agent-Task-Environment; 4 Observer-independent Dynamical Measures of Team Coordination and Performance; 5 Decomposing Muscle Activity in Motor Tasks: Methods and Interpretation; Part 2 Cortical Mechanisms of Motor Control
- 6 Dynamics of Motor Cortical Networks: The Complementarity of Spike Synchrony and Firing Rate7 Proximal-to-Distal Sequencing Behavior and Motor Cortex; Part 3 Lessons from Biomechanics; 8 The Biomechanics of Movement Control; 9 Control of Locomotion: Lessons from Whole-body Biomechanical Analysis; 10 Control of Equilibrium in Humans: Sway over Sway; Part 4 Lessons from Motor Learning and Using Tools; 11 Learning and Switching of Internal Models for Dexterous Tool Use; 12 Variability, Noise, and Sensitivity to Error in Learning a Motor Task
- 13 Forecasting the Long-range Consequences of Manual and Tool Use Actions: Neurophysiological, Behavioral, and Computational Considerations14 Training Skills with Virtual Environments; Part 5 Lessons from Studies of Aging and Motor Disorders; 15 Brain and Behavior Deficits in De Novo Parkinson Disease; 16 Emerging Principles in the Learning and Generalization of New Walking Patterns; 17 Aging and Movement Control: The Neural Basis of Age-related Compensatory Recruitment; Part 6 Lessons from Robotics
- 18 Decoding the Mechanisms of Gait Generation and Gait Transition in the Salamander Using Robots and Mathematical Models19 Aerial Navigation and Optic Flow Sensing: A Biorobotic Approach; 20 Models and Architectures for Motor Control: Simple or Complex?; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed Jan. 12, 2011).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-045323-0
- 0-19-978078-1
- 9786612945021
- 1-282-94502-5
- OCLC:
- 694791355
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