Abstract

This book sets a new standard as the leading state-of-the-art account on motor control by using a Bernsteinian integration of information from different fields of the study. This volume summarizes the latest motor control issues, research, and theories, and identifies problems in pressing need of investigation. Motor control scientists integrate information across different fields of study and provide a contemporary reflection of Bernstein's legacy in the nienties. The authors and their topics are: 1. Gurfinkel, Victor S.;Cordo, Paul J.: The scientific legacy of Nicolai Bernstein; 2. Stuart, Douglas G.;McDonagh, Jennifer C.: Reflections on a Bernsteinian approach to systems neuroscience: The controlled locomotion of high-decerebrate cats; 3. Latash, Lev P.: Automation of movements: challenges to the notions of the orienting reaction and memory; 4. Feigenberg, Josef M.: The model of the future in motor control; 5. Wiesendanger, Mario: Bernstein's principle of equal simplicity and related concepts; 6. Massion, Jean;Alexandrov, Alexey;Vernazza, Sylvie: Coordinated control of posture and movement: respective role of motor memory and external constraints; 7. Cordo, Paul J.;Burke, David;Gandevia, Simon C.;Hales, John-Paul: Mechanical, neural, and perceptual effects of tendon vibration; 8. Gielen, Stan;van Bolhuis, Bauke;Vrijenhoek, Erik: On the number of degrees of freedom in biological limbs; 9. Rymer, W. Zev;Dewald, Jules;Given, P.T. Joseph;Beer, Randall: Abnormal muscle synergies in hemiparetic stroke: origins and implications for movement control; 10. Kelso, J. A. Scott: From Bernstein's physiology of activity to coordination dynamics; 11.Kim, Nam-Gyoon;Turvey, M. T.: Optical flow fields and Bernstein's "modeling of the future"; 12. Thelen, Esther: Bernstein's legacy for motor development: How infants learn to reach; 13. Thelen, Esther: Bernstein's legacy for motor development: How infants learn to reach; 14. Latash, Mark: Control of multijoint reaching movement: the elastic membrane metaphor; 15. Schmidt, Richard A.;Heuer, Herbert;Ghodisian, Dina;Young, Douglas E.: Generalized motor programs and units of action in bimanual coordination; 16. van Soest, A.J. "Knoek";van Ingen Schenau, Gerrit Jan: How are explosive movements controlled? Klappentext und Inhaltsverzeichnis