Motor Control and Learning

✍ Scribed by Anatol G. Feldman (auth.), Mark L. Latash, Francis Lestienne (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 166
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Motor Control and Learning focuses on the effects of development, aging, and practice on the control of human voluntary movement. These issues have been at the center of attention of the motor control community, but no book until now has addressed all of these issues under one cover in the context of contemporary views on the control of human voluntary movement. This book emphasizes the links between progress in basic motor control research and applied areas such as motor disorders and motor rehabilitation.

Contributors are established scientists in the areas of both theoretical/experimental motor control and its applications. The chapters focus more on large, general issues than on their particular research. As a result, Motor Control and Learning is relevant to both professionals in the areas of motor control, movement disorders, and motor rehabilitation, and to students who are starting their careers in one of these actively developed areas.

Dr. Mark L. Latash is Professor of Kinesiology at the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Francis G. Lestienne is Professor and Director of the Center for Science and Technology in Physical Activity and Sports at the Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, France.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Nature of Voluntary Control of Motor Actions....Pages 3-8
Plans for Grasping Objects....Pages 9-25
Adherence and Postural Control: A Biomechanical Analysis of Transient Push Efforts....Pages 27-43
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
Trajectory Formation in Timed Repetitive Movements....Pages 47-54
Stability and Variability in Skilled Rhythmic Action—A Dynamical Analysis of Rhythmic Ball Bouncing....Pages 55-62
The Distinctions Between State, Parameter and Graph Dynamics in Sensorimotor Control and Coordination....Pages 63-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Stabilization of Old and New Postural Patterns in Standing Humans....Pages 77-87
The Role of the Motor Cortex in Motor Learning....Pages 89-95
Feedback Remapping and the Cortical Control of Movement....Pages 97-104
How Cerebral and Cerebellar Plasticities May Cooperate During Arm Reaching Movement Learning: A Neural Network Model....Pages 105-114
Motor Performance and Regional Brain Metabolism of Four Spontaneous Murine Mutations with Degeneration of the Cerebellar Cortex....Pages 115-124
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Development and Motor Control: From the First Step on....Pages 127-139
Changes in Finger Coordination and Hand Function with Advanced Age....Pages 141-159

✦ Subjects

Neurology; Neurosciences; Rehabilitation Medicine; Physiotherapy; Biochemical Engineering