Feedback and Motor Control in Invertebrates and Vertebrates

✍ Scribed by D. A. Dorsett (auth.), Dr. W. J. P. Barnes BSc, PhD, M. H. Gladden MB, BS, PhD, MRCS(Eng), LRCP(Lond), DCH (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 489
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a collection of papers given by invited speakers at a Symposium on 'Feedback and Motor Control', held at the University of Glasgow from July 10th to 13th 1984, which was attended by over 200 scientists from 20 countries. The Symposium was the Fourth International Symposium organised by the Scottish Electrophysiological Society (SES), and on this occasion the SES joined forces with the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB), so that the Symposium was held dur ing the annual Summer Meeting of the SEB. A policy of the SES since its formation in 1970 has been to promote dialogue between scientists working on invertebrate and vertebrate nervous systems by hol

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages N1-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-12
Central Feedback Loops and Some Implications for Motor Control....Pages 13-33
Neural Control of Vertebrate Locomotion - Central Mechanisms and Reflex Interaction with Special Reference to the Cat....Pages 35-56
Generation of Behaviour: the Orchestration Hypothesis....Pages 57-75
Convergence of Several Sensory Modalities in Motor Control....Pages 77-91
Feedback Control of an Escape Behaviour....Pages 93-111
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Introduction....Pages 115-121
Intrafusal Muscle Fibres in the Cat and their Motor Control....Pages 123-144
How do Crabs Control their Muscle Receptors?....Pages 145-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Introduction....Pages 169-172
What the Cat’s Hindlimb Tells the Cat’s Spinal Cord....Pages 173-186
Proprioceptive Feedback and the Control of Cockroach Walking....Pages 187-208
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
Introduction....Pages 211-216
Stretch Reflexes in Man: The Significance of Tendon Compliance....Pages 217-229
The Synaptic Basis for Integration of Local Reflexes in The Locust....Pages 231-250
Front Matter....Pages 251-251
Introduction....Pages 253-258
Control of Eye-Head Coordination by Brain Stem Neurones....Pages 259-275
Multisensory Interactions in the Crustacean Equilibrium System....Pages 277-298
Front Matter....Pages 299-299
Introducton....Pages 301-305
Are there Central Pattern Generators for Walking and Flight in Insects?....Pages 307-315
Front Matter....Pages 299-299
The Role of Movement-Related Feedback in The Control of Locomotion in Fish and Lamprey....Pages 317-335
How Locusts Fly Straight....Pages 337-354
Interactions of Segmental and Suprasegmental Inputs with the Spinal Pattern Generator of Locomotion....Pages 355-377
Stepping Reflexes and The Sensory Control of Walking in Crustacea....Pages 379-400
Front Matter....Pages 401-401
Introduction....Pages 403-409
Proprioceptive Activity from Human Finger Muscles....Pages 411-430
Human Long-Latency Stretch Reflexes-A New Role for the Secondary Ending of The Muscle Spindle?....Pages 431-449
Phase Dependent Step Adaptations During Human Locomotion....Pages 451-464
Abnormal Feedback and Movement Disorders in Man, with Particular Reference to Cortical Myoclonus....Pages 465-475
Back Matter....Pages 477-496

✦ Subjects

Invertebrates; Science, general