Motor control
Subtitle: theories, experiments, and applications
By: edited by Frédéric Danion, Mark L. Latash
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 511
ISBN-13: 9780199780785; 9780195395273
Subjects: Motor ability; Life Sciences; Human Anatomy & Physiology; SCIENCE; MEDICAL; Physiology; Human locomotion; Movement
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Anticipatory control of voluntary action : merging the ideas of equilibrium-point control and synergic control / Mark L. Latash; title: Object representations used in action and perception / J. Randall Flanagan and Roland S. Johansson; title: A canonical-dissipative approach to control and coordination in the complex system agent-task-environment / Till D. Frank, Dobromir G. Dotov, and Michael T. Turvey; title: Observer-independent dynamical measures of team coordination and performance / Silke M. Dodel ... [et al.]; title: Decomposing muscle activity in motor tasks : methods and interpretation / Lena H. Ting and Stacie A. Chvatal; title: Dynamics of motor cortical networks : the complementarity of spike syndrome and firing rate / Alexa Riehle ... [et al.]; title: Proximal-to-distal sequencing behavior and motor cortex / Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos, Leonel Olmedo, and Kazutaka Takahashi; title: The biomechanics of movement control / Walter Herzog; title: Control of locomotion : lessons from whole-body biomechanical analysis / Boris I. Prilutsky and Alexander N. Klishko; title: Control of equilibrium in humans : sway over sway / Marcos Duarte ... [et al.]; title: Learning and switching of internal models for dexterous tool use / Hiroshi Imamizu; title: Variability, noise, and sensitivity to error in learning a motor task / Dagmar Sternad and Masaki O. Abe; title: Forecasting the long-range consequences of manual and tool use actions : neurophysiological, behavioral, and computational considerations / Scott H. Frey; title: Training skills with virtual environments / Carlo A. Avizzano, Emanuele Ruffaldi, and Massimo Bergamasco; title: Brain and behavior deficits in De Novo Parkinson's disease / David E. Vaillancourt and Janey Prodoehl; title: Emerging principles in the learning and generalization of new walking patterns / Erin V. L. Vasudevan, Amy J. Bastian, and Gelsy Torres-Oviedo; title: Aging and movement control : the neural basis of age-related compensatory recruitment / Stephan P. Swinnen ... [et al.]; title: Decoding the mechanisms of gait generation and gait transition in the salamander using robots and mathematical models / Jeremie Knuesel, Jean-Marie Cabelguen, and Auke Ijspeert; title: Aerial navigation and optic flow sensing : a biorobotic approach / Nicolas Franceschini, Frank Ruffier, and Julien Serres; title: Models and architectures for motor control : simple or complex? / Emmanuel Guigon.