Motor Control and Learning

by Markus Latash (Editor), Francis Lestienne (Editor)

Overview

The purpose of the current volume is two-fold. First, The second chapter is co-authored by Rosenbaum, it presents a series of review papers reffecting the re- Cohen, Meulenbroek, and Vaughan. The authors - cent progress in the area of neural control of posture dress in this chapter another central issue of motor and movement (Parts I and II). Second, it focuses on control,thatofcreatingmotorplans.Inlinewitht- issues of changes in motor patterns and neurological orizing by David Rosenbaum and his colleagues, this structures involved in their production with learning, chapter develops the idea of end-state comfort as an development, and aging (Parts III and IV). organizing criterion for the formation motor plans. The chapters in this volume were written by speak- The chapter also highlights the role of mental rep- ers at the Fourth meeting “Progress in Motor Con- sentation in motor control. trol” that took place in Caen (France) in 2003. As Chapter 3 focuses on issues of postural control.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441937926
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	10/29/2010
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006
Pages:	169
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.28(d)

Table of Contents

Control of Movement and Posture.- The Nature of Voluntary Control of Motor Actions.- Plans for Grasping Objects.- Adherence and Postural Control: A Biomechanical Analysis of Transient Push Efforts.- Control of Rhythmic Action.- Trajectory Formation in Timed Repetitive Movements.- Stability and Variability in Skilled Rhythmic Action—A Dynamical Analysis of Rhythmic Ball Bouncing.- The Distinctions Between State, Parameter and Graph Dynamics in Sensorimotor Control and Coordination.- Motor Learning and Neural Plasticity.- Stabilization of Old and New Postural Patterns in Standing Humans.- The Role of the Motor Cortex in Motor Learning.- Feedback Remapping and the Cortical Control of Movement.- How Cerebral and Cerebellar Plasticities May Cooperate During Arm Reaching Movement Learning: A Neural Network Model.- Motor Performance and Regional Brain Metabolism of Four Spontaneous Murine Mutations with Degeneration of the Cerebellar Cortex.- Development and Aging.- Development and Motor Control: From the First Step on.- Changes in Finger Coordination and Hand Function with Advanced Age.