Progress in Motor Control: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Nature of Motor Control: Not Strictly “Motor”, Not Quite “Control”....Pages 3-6
Beyond Control: The Dynamics of Brain-Body-Environment Interaction in Motor Systems....Pages 7-24
Towards Testable Neuromechanical Control Architectures for Running....Pages 25-55
Control from an Allometric Perspective....Pages 57-82
Synergies: Atoms of Brain and Behavior....Pages 83-91
Nature of Motor Control: Perspectives and Issues....Pages 93-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Past, Present, and Emerging Principles in the Neural Encoding of Movement....Pages 127-137
From Intention to Action: Motor Cortex and the Control of Reaching Movements....Pages 139-178
Control of Muscle Synergies by Cortical Ensembles....Pages 179-199
Behavioral and Neurophysiological Aspects of Target Interception....Pages 201-220
Learning from Learning: What Can Visuomotor Adaptations Tell us About the Neuronal Representation of Movement?....Pages 221-242
The Problem of Parametric Neural Coding in the Motor System....Pages 243-259
Front Matter....Pages 261-261
Introduction to Section on Perception and Action....Pages 263-272
Mutuality in the Perception of Affordances and the Control of Movement....Pages 273-292
Object Avoidance During Locomotion....Pages 293-315
The Roles of Vision and Proprioception in the Planning of Reaching Movements....Pages 317-335
Using Predictive Motor Control Processes in a Cognitive Task: Behavioral and Neuroanatomical Perspectives....Pages 337-354
The Human Mirror Neuron System and Embodied Representations....Pages 355-376
Disorders of the Perceptual-Motor System....Pages 377-391
Front Matter....Pages 393-393
Some Contemporary Issues in Motor Learning....Pages 395-404
Front Matter....Pages 393-393
Motor Learning and Consolidation: The Case of Visuomotor Rotation....Pages 405-421
Cortical Processing during Dynamic Motor Adaptation....Pages 423-438
Motor Learning: Changes in the Structure of Variability in a Redundant Task....Pages 439-456
Time Scales, Difficulty/Skill Duality, and the Dynamics of Motor Learning....Pages 457-476
Front Matter....Pages 477-477
Bridging of Models for Complex Movements in 3D....Pages 479-483
The Posture-Based Motion Planning Framework: New Findings Related to Object Manipulation, Moving Around Obstacles, Moving in Three Spatial Dimensions, and Haptic Tracking....Pages 485-497
Grasping Occam’s Razor....Pages 499-522
Review of Models for the Generation of Multi-Joint Movements in 3-D....Pages 523-550
Front Matter....Pages 551-551
Why the Hand?....Pages 553-557
Selective Activation of Human Finger Muscles after Stroke or Amputation....Pages 559-575
Neural Control of Hand Muscles During Prehension....Pages 577-596
Multi-Finger Prehension: Control of a Redundant Mechanical System....Pages 597-618
A Mathematical Approach to the Mechanical Capabilities of Limbs and Fingers....Pages 619-633
Front Matter....Pages 635-635
Origin and Advances of the Equilibrium-Point Hypothesis....Pages 637-643
The Biomechanics of Force Production....Pages 645-661
The Implications of Force Feedback for the λ Model....Pages 663-679
Control and Calibration of Multi-Segment Reaching Movements....Pages 681-698
The Equilibrium-Point Hypothesis – Past, Present and Future....Pages 699-726
Back Matter....Pages 727-734