The acquisition of motor behavior in vertebrates
By: edited by James R. Bloedel, Timothy J. Ebner, and Steven P. Wise.
Contributors: Bloedel, James R.; Ebner, Timothy J.; Wise, Steven P.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
Subjects: Motor learning -- Congresses.; Efferent pathways -- Congresses.
Description: Our motor skills determine how well we perform in athletics, dance, music, and carrying out countless daily chores. While our proficiency at performing individual actions and synthesizing them into seamless sequences limits our athletic and artistic talents, we are not perpetually bound by such limitations. The nervous system can acquire new, and modify old, motor behaviors through experience and practice. That is motor learning.

The Acquisition of Motor Behavior in Vertebrates provides a broad, multidisciplinary survey of recent research on the brain systems and mechanisms underlying motor learning. Following the editors' introduction, nineteen contributions report on the neurobiology of these higher brain functions and on diverse types of motor learning such as reflex adaptation, conditioned and instrumental reflex learning, visually guided actions, and complex sequences and skills.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The proceedings of a satellite seminar held at the fifth annual Neural Control of Movement meeting in Key West, Florida from April 23 to April 25, 1995"--Pref.
"A Bradford book."